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Is there standard notation for sampling a value from a probability distribution? Like, if I had a random variable $X$, setting $x$ to whatever value I happened to sample from $X$ on this occasion? I was thinking just $x \gets X$, but that seems ambiguous.

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    @whuber: Absolutely. Do you have any other suggestion?2011-08-13

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