Mastering pandas - Second Edition

The binomial distribution

The binomial distribution is used to represent the number of successes in n-independent Bernoulli trials, which can be expressed as the following:

Y = X₁ + X₂ + ... + X_n

Using the coin toss example, this distribution models the chance of getting X heads over n trials. For 100 tosses, the binomial distribution models the likelihood of getting 0 heads (extremely unlikely) to 50 heads (highest likelihood) to 100 heads (also extremely unlikely). This ends up making the binomial distribution symmetrical when the odds are perfectly even and skewed when the odds are far less even. The PMF is given by the following expression:

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

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