In this thesis, we study the distribution of the defect of random matrices with entries from finite fields. For the uniform distribution of entries, counting the corresponding matrices allows us to describe the limiting defect distribution with an explicit formula. For the non-uniform distribution of entries, this approach is not directly applicable. Nevertheless, over the field $GF(2)$ and under additional assumptions, the limiting defect distribution again converges to the expression obtained for the uniform distribution of entries.
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