Abstract: Publisher SummaryIn certain cases, the data are not continuous, but discrete and other distributions are required, such as the binomial, the hypergeometric, and Poisson distributions, to describe these data. The binomial distribution can be used to model the distribution of objects that can take on two states. In statistics books, the binomial distribution is often explained with an urn in which there are a number of balls, the pth fraction of which are red and the rest black. When a ball is taken from this urn, it has a probability p to be red and a probability q = 1 –p to be black. If R is red and B is black, then the following combinations of red and black balls can be obtained when three balls have been drawn. The hypergeometric distribution is similar to the binomial distribution but sampled without replacement.
Publication Year: 1998
Publication Date: 1998-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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