Six Sigma and Beyond: Statistics and Probability, Volume III
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Two or more individual samples may be assigned the same numerical random value X i .
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The total number of random variables M will be less than or equal to the total number of individual samples N.
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Range of random variables: [X 1 ‰ X i ‰ X M ]
(There are M discrete random variables in the range.)
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If all samples are assigned a unique RV, then M = N. This may be shown in a pictorial form as: