In the fixed X model, the \(e_{i}\) were independent of each other. In the random X model, Y and \(\boldsymbol{\xi}\) have a joint distribution and the data are modeled as n independent random vectors, \((Y_{1},\,\boldsymbol{\xi}_{1}),\,(Y_{2},\,\boldsymbol{\xi}_{2}),\,\ldots,\,(Y_{n},\,\boldsymbol{\xi}_{n})\) drawn from that joint distribution.
The previous model is seen to be a conditional version of the new model - the analysis is conditional on the observed values \(\mathbf{x}_{1},\,\mathbf{x}_{2},\,\ldots,\,\mathbf{x}_{n}\).