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Message posted by sherri byrd-bridges (via 208.63.201.65) on May 22, 2001 at 11:07 PM (ET)
How do you calculate probabilities for a binomial random variable?
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Re: Probabilities
Message posted by Jack Tomsky (via 208.249.113.130) on May 23, 2001 at 5:24 PM (ET)
If X ~ Bin(N,p), thenProb(X=k) = N!/[k!(N-k)!] * p^k * (1-p)^(N-k)
Re: Probabilities
Message posted by JG (via 128.8.22.18) on June 5, 2001 at 2:55 AM (ET)
See also the Normal and Poisson approximations to the binomial.
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