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Until now, all experiments E have had discrete events {A n} as their outputs, as in rolls of a die. On the other hand, everyday experience tells us that continuously random events often occur, as in the waiting time t for a train, or the position x at which a photon strikes the image plane.
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Frieden, B.R. (2001). Continuous Random Variables. In: Probability, Statistical Optics, and Data Testing. Springer Series in Information Sciences, vol 10. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56699-8_3
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