Assertion: distribution's probability | /r/RelatedTo | generated random variables
Facets:
value: discretely
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: The French mathematician Abraham de Moivre, in his Doctrine of Chances (1718), first noted that probabilities associated with discretely generated random variables (such as are obtained by flipping a coin or rolling a die) can be approximated by the area under the graph of an exponential function.