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A generalized negative binomial (GNB) distribution with an additional parameter β has been obtained by using Lagrange's expansion. The parameter is such that both mean and variance tend to increase or ...

It is a common practice to approximate a binomial distribution by a suitable normal distribution when n, the number of trials, is moderately large. But when p, the probability of success, is not close ...

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The binomial distribution is an important discrete distribution. It gives the probability of the number of "successes," in a sequence of n independent binary trials. This applet allows users to drag ...