A Discrete Variable That Can Often Be Used to Describe

question 105

Multiple Choice

A discrete variable that can often be used to describe the number of occurrences of an event over a specified interval of time or space is a ________ random variable.

• A) Poisson
• B) discrete
• C) hypergeometric
• D) continuous

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