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