  In this paper we study the distribution of the size of the value set for a
random polynomial with degree at most $q-1$ over a finite field $\mathbb{F}_q$.
We obtain the exact probability distribution and show that the number of
missing values tends to a normal distribution as $q$ goes to infinity. We
obtain these results through a study of a random $r$-th order cyclotomic
mappings. A variation on the size of the union of some random sets is also
considered.
