The advantage to defining the random variable X in this context is that the two outcomes ht and th are both assigned a value of 1, meaning we are not focused on the actual sequence of ...The advantage to defining the random variable X in this context is that the two outcomes ht and th are both assigned a value of 1, meaning we are not focused on the actual sequence of heads and tails that resulted in obtaining one heads. A discrete random variable is a random variable that has only a finite or countably infinite (think integers or whole numbers) number of possible values.
