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In probability and statistics, a probability distribution assigns a probability to each measurable subset of the possible outcomes of a random experiment, survey, or procedure of statistical inference.

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How much reduction in expected variance can we get from a single bit?

This is a specific instance of one-shot lossy source coding which is still open in general. The best work I know of is in this preprint by Elkayam and Feder where they distill it down to the open prob …
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Transforming random variables for having good property?

No, of course not. You cannot generally get $X,Y$ to surely satisfy your desired typical events $\Omega$ and $\Lambda$ by transforming them individually. Let alone finding a somehow negligibly-distor …
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