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Such a usual concept like expectation or average is not straightforward to define for random sets. The lecture provides an overview of existing definitions of expectations for random sets and figures. The latter are equivalence classes of sets of rigid motions, so that the corresponding averages must be independent of the position of particular figures from a sample. Finally, several models of random compact sets are discussed. These random set models yield realisations with variable shapes and allow to carry out simple statistical inference. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0914.00073].