RANDOM VARIABLES AND

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS

Grade 11- DEIMOS

 WHAT ARE YOUR
THOUGHTS ABOUT THE
WORD “RANDOM?”
 REVIEW

• The word “random” is often read and heard

from people of different walks of life. Like,
“the distribution of relief goods is randomly
chosen in our barangay”, “There is a random
SWAB testing which will be conducted by
our local health unit on Saturday”.
DOES IT TELL ABOUT A REAL
RANDOM EVENT?
This is a decision that was The word random has a
made based on other different meaning in the
variables as desire and the field of statistics. It is
lack of satisfaction with random when it varies by
other options. chance.
HOW DO WE FIND THE
RANDOM VARIABLE ON
ANY RANDOM EVENT
OR EXPERIMENT?
ANSWER:
 WHAT ARE THE TWO TYPES OF
RANDOM VARIABLES?

1.DISCRETE VARIABLE
2.CONTINUOUS VARIABLE
 TO SUM IT UP!

DISCRETE CONTINUOUS
VARIABLE- VARIABLE-
can be can be
COUNTED MEASURED
IDENTIFY IF THE FOLLOWING
EXAMPLES ARE DISCRETE OR
CONTINUOUS.
1. NUMBER OF PATIENTS
PER DAY AT NOPH.
DISCRETE!
2. TEMPERATURE OF
DUMAGUETE CITY
CONTINUOUS!
3. THE NUMBER OF
MALE ATHLETES
DISCRETE!
4. THE AMOUNT OF SUGAR
IN A CUP OF COFFEE
CONTINUOUS!
 • Probability is the
branch of mathematics
WHAT IS concerning events and
PROBABILITY?
numerical descriptions
of how likely they are
to occur.
 WHAT IS A PROBABILITY
DISTRIBUTION?

A probability distribution is a Probability distributions are often depicted

mathematical function that describes the using graphs or probability tables.
probability of different possible values of a
variable.
 HOW DO WE CONSTRUCT THE
PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION OF A
DISCRETE VARIABLE?
WE NEED FIRST TO KNOW
THE PROPERTIES OF A
DISCRETE PROBABILITY
DISTRIBUTION
 DETERMINE WHETHER
THE DISTRIBUTION IS A
DISCRETE PROBABILITY
DISTRIBUTION
 A RA N D O M
VA RI A BL E X H A S
T H E F O LL O W I N G
P RO BA BI L I T Y
D I S T RI BU T I O N
PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION OF
DISCRETE RANDOM VARIABLE
HOW TO CONSTRUCT A PROBABILITY
DISTRIBUTION OF DISCRETE RANDOM
VARIABLE?
GROUP YOURSELVES INTO 6 GROUPS.