Questions tagged [binomial-distribution]

In probability theory and statistics, the binomial distribution with parameters n and p is the discrete probability distribution of the number of successes in a sequence of n independent yes/no experiments, each of which yields success with probability p. (Def: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binomial_distribution)

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How can I get N trials from binomial distribution (Edited)

$$ \sum_{k=0}^{17}{_NC_k}\times 0.1^k\times 0.9^{N-k}<0.004 $$ How can I get a $N$ from above inequality?
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How can I get $N$ trials from binomial distribution?

$$ \sum_{k=1}^{15}{_NC_k}\times(0.1)^k\times (0.9)^{N-k} > 0.9996 $$ Is there a way to get $N$ from this? I was looking for a lots of materials but I couldn't find.
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What would be the value of p in the following question?

A producer assigns three roles to 20 actors. Roles were younger boy, old man and disable man. Find probability that 2 or more actors perform old man in the film. P(X > 2) = ? P(X > 2) = 1 - [P(X = 1) + P(X = 0)] P(X > 2) = 1 - P(X = 1) - P(X =…
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Solving for number of trials for a given probability

How to solve for the smallest $n$ such that $$1- 0.999^{n}-n\cdot0.001\cdot 0.999^{n-1}\geq 0.95$$
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Binomial Distribution Probability Problem

We have two random variables $X$ and $Y$ both of them follows Binomial Distribution with parameters $n$ and $0.5$. Consider, another random variables, $Z$ which is also Binomial Distribution with parameters $2n$ and $0.5$. Then, represent the…
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Bernoulli trials total probability

Let X be a binomial random variable with parameters $n = 6$ and $p = 0.4$. We have $P(X=0)=0.0467$ $P(X=1)=0.1866$ $P(X=2)=0.3110$ $P(X=2)=0.2765$ $P(X=2)=0.1382$ $P(X=2)=0.0369$ $P(X=6)=0.0041$ Why is $P(X=6)$ $\neq$ $1-P(X=0)$? Say we have a…
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Using Binomial Distribution to Find the Probability of Two of the Same evnts ocurring

I am doing a Binomial distribution question, in which I have been asked to find the probabability of the same events happening. I know that the probability of the event is 1/3, the number of trials is 20. I have been asked to find the probability of…
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Calculate like DISTRIB.BINOM

I have a formula in excel : =1-DISTRIB.BINOM( 7;10; 0.5; 1 ) Result : 0,0546875 is possibile to calculate manually? how?
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Discrete Probability Distribution

Alice has noticed that the probability of any browsing customers eventually buying sth in the store is 18%, assume that the decisions of buying are independent of one another. Thus, what is the expected number of browsing customers who would buy sth…
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Multiplying binomial distributions

Suppose I have X ∼ Bin(1,p). Is the distribution of X^2 the same as X? I know that X+X ∼ Bin(1+1,p), which would lead me to the (probably incorrect) assertion that X^2 ∼ Bin(1*1,p). I also know that if for Bin(n,p), where n = 1, then only one trial…
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binomial distribution questions

I am stuck on the following question and am not sure where to go from what I have currently done. Donald Trump has gone moose hunting. When he fires his gun at a moose he scores a hit with a probability of 0.8. On a typical hunt, he will fire his…
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How to find n in Binom. distr?

In Restaurant Bijoux 13% of customers rated the food as ‘poor’, 22% of customers rated the food as ‘satisfactory’ and 65% rated it as ‘good’. A random sample of 12 customers who went for a meal at Restaurant Bijoux was taken. On a separate occasion,…
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Binomial distribution - identifying number of trials

Simple question, but I am a bit confused: Given a working month of $28$ days, and let $Z$ be the number of days on which the sales exceed the target with a probability of $0.625$. Identify the distribution of $Z$ and find the probability that the…
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what is Negative Binomial Distribution

I read about Negative Binomial Distribution, but did not understood. Can you explain in simple word and using examples?
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Why is the SD of a larger set in a binomial distribution smaller?

Say the probability of success is 56% and we're trying to find the probability of success of the 60% mark. For example: Say we have a population of 10, the probability of success is 56%, and we want to know how likely it is to get a 6. Whatever the…
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