October 2019
Beginner to intermediate
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English
The negative binomial distribution is used for independent Bernoulli trials and measures the number of tries (X=k) that are needed before a specified number of successes (r) occur. An example would be the number of coin tosses it would take to obtain five heads. The PMF is given as follows:

The expectation and variance are given respectively by the following expressions:


We can see that the negative binomial ...
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