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Chapter 8: Discrete Probability Distributions
CHAPTER 8
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Discrete Probability Distributions
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You should study the topics in this chapter if you need to review
or want to learn about
Probability distributions
Expectation or expected values
Variance
Bernoulli trials
The Binomial Distribution
The Geometric Distributions
The Poisson Distribution
The Hypergeometric Distribution
8-1 Introduction
Here we will discuss concepts relating to sample spaces and random
experiments. For example, if a fair regular six-sided die is tossed, then the
sample space will be
S
= {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6}. Using the classical definition of
probability, we can summarize the outcomes with the associated
probabilities as shown in
Table 8-1
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