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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 ...
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C (Applied Statistics), Vol. 27, No. 2 (1978), pp. 162-167 (6 pages) The sum of k independent and identically distributed (0, 1) variables has a ...
Advances in Applied Probability, Vol. 53, No. 2 (JUNE 2021), pp. 370-399 (30 pages) We derive the large-sample distribution of the number of species in a version of Kingman’s Poisson–Dirichlet model ...