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Table of Contents Univariate Data Distributions Most common distributons Binomial Distribution	Index
See also: normal distribution, Bernoulli distribution, hypergeometric distribution, relationship between distributions

Binomial Distribution

Definition	The binomial distribution describes a discrete probability distribution.
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Applications	P is the probability, that event E occurs exactly x times in a population of n events. A binomial distribution is encountered when drawing proportions of a Bernoulli process.
First Moment	E(X) = np
Second Moment	VAR(X) = np(1-p)

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