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Is geometric distribution a type of Bernoulli distribution? But I remember geometric distribution has mean $1/p$ not matching the table here. enter image description here

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    "Is geometric distribution a type of Bernoulli distribution?" Not really. – callculus42 Mar 07 '20 at 17:47
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    Likely the “PMF” formula in that table was confusing you. A Bernoulli random variable $X$ can only take one of two values, 0 or 1, and $P[X=1]=p, P[X=0]=1-p$. – Michael Mar 07 '20 at 17:54
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    The distributions are related but not the same. The number of Bernoulli trials until there is a failure has geometric distribution, for example. – Math1000 Mar 07 '20 at 19:27

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