The binomial distribution is an important discrete distribution. It gives the probability of the number of "successes," in a sequence of n independent binary trials. This applet allows users to drag ...

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C (Applied Statistics), Vol. 27, No. 2 (1978), pp. 162-167 (6 pages) The sum of k independent and identically distributed (0, 1) variables has a ...

In a finite series of independent success-failure trials, the total number of successes has a binomial probability distribution. It is a classical result that this probability distribution is subject ...

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