For all questions that involve the geometric distribution in the context of probability, that is, the law of a random variable whose outcome is the number of attempts we need before a first success in repeated Bernoulli experiments.
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Geometric Random Variable Expectation/Variance
Looking to find the expected value/variance of the following geometric variable defined as having success rate p, where trials are taken until we have a success (which happens with probability p) or we have taken n trials.
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John Li
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