Binomial Distribution
The distribution on counts successes in independent Bernoulli trials:
For a coin toss, is the probability of obtaining heads in tosses.
Definition 2.21 (Binomial Distribution)
A binomial distribution models the number of successes in independent Bernoulli trials, each with success probability .
The binomial distribution with parameters and is defined by
where is called the binomial distribution. Note that in the case of a coin toss,
Related
Stated in
- Definition 2.21 (Binomial Distribution)§2.5 Discrete Probability Distributions