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SciPy Recipes
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SciPy Recipes

by Luiz Felipe Martins, Ke Wu, Ruben Oliva Ramos, V Kishore Ayyadevara
December 2017
Intermediate to advanced
386 pages
10h 42m
English
Packt Publishing
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Multinomial discrete distribution

In order to understand multinomial discrete distribution, let's consider the following scenario:

In a football match, the outcome of the game is equally likely to be a win, draw, or loss for a given team. What is the probability that if the two teams play twice, there will be exactly one win and one draw for the team?

Similar to the way in which we solved the previous example, let us consider all the possible outcomes of playing two games (conducting two experiments):

From all the possible outcomes listed, one win and one draw can happen in only two possible outcomes (DW and WD). 

Thus, the probability of ...

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