Talk:Independent and identically-distributed random variables

From a practical point of view, an important implication of this is that if the roulette ball lands on 'red', for example, 20 times in a row, the next spin is no more or less likely to be 'black' than on any other spin.

I disagree with the above statement. The sequence is IID by definition, so it does not matter whether or not the previous 20 rolls resulted in red. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.43.48.131 (talk)

So what do you disagree with? You say it doesn't matter; the statement you say you disagree with also says it doesn't matter. Michael Hardy 22:50, 29 October 2007 (UTC)