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The two terms (variate"variate" and deviate)"deviate" appear to be interchangeable according to:

a random variable is a measurable function from a probability space to a measurable space of values that the variable can take on. In that context, and in statistics, those values are known as a random variates, or occasionally random deviates[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_variate. (3/8/2018)

The two terms (variate and deviate) appear to be interchangeable according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_variate.

The terms "variate" and "deviate" appear to be interchangeable:

a random variable is a measurable function from a probability space to a measurable space of values that the variable can take on. In that context, and in statistics, those values are known as a random variates, or occasionally random deviates[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_variate (3/8/2018)

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The two terms (variate and deviate) appear to be interchangeable according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_variate.