: The binomial distribution

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When you are

carrying out a number of trials in an
experiment define a random variable X
or
survey
, you can
I

to represent the number of succesful trals

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- you can model X with binomial distribution , B(n , pl ,
if :

↳ There are a fixed number of trials ,

n
·
There are two possible outcomes /Success and Failure
↳ If P(success) = P and there are only two outcomes
then Plfculure) = 1-p
there fixed
is a
probability of success , p
the trials are independent of each other
If a random variable X has the binomial distribution
B(n , p) then its
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probability
mass function is
given by

(n)pr(1
-
P(X = r) =
-

p)n
Index
Parameter

Notation :x ~BIn p ,

Links-(y)
· = ni
r ! (n - r) !