Learn how probability distributions help investors assess potential returns and manage risks on assets like stocks. Discover key types: discrete and continuous distributions.

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A random variable that can take only a certain specified set of individual possible values-for example, the positive integers 1, 2, 3, . . . For example, stock prices are discrete random variables, ...