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In Bishop's book (Pattern recognition and machine learning, pag 122) there is an unclear passage for me in deriving certain formulas:

$E[K/N] = P$ and $var[K/N] = P(1-P)$

Considering binomial probability

$P(x=x) = \binom{N}{x} P^{x} \cdot (1 - P)^{(N-x)}$

I know that the expected value and variance is given by:

$E(X) = N \cdot x$

$var(X) = N \cdot x \cdot (1-x)$

As a first thing since Bishop refers to the fraction of points that fall in the bin, i.e., K/N, I would be tempted to substitute N for K/N, however, there are some steps (perhaps algebraic) that I am missing.

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Gianni
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