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Discrete

Binomial

Geometric

A specialization of the Negative Binomial distribution, where the experiment is stopped after the first success.

Hypergeometric

Negative Binomial

Applies to problems where an experiment is done until a fixed number of successes ( n ) in a certain number of trials ( k ) occur. These types of experiments are called negative binomial experiments. The negative binomial random variable is k.

Poisson

Applies to processes with small constant probabilities. Is a good approximation to a binomial distribution for large n and small p.

Uniform



Skip Carter
Wed May 22 15:29:40 PDT 1996