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Examples:
Often: Two outcomes which are not equally likely:
Success of medical treatment
Interviewed person is female
Student passes exam
Transmittance of a disease
Plant 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Before 45 73 46 124 33 57 83 34 26 17
After 36 60 44 119 35 51 77 29 24 11
Result: 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1
Y = X1 + . . . + X n
Y is the number of plants for which the number of lost hours has
decreased after the installation of the safety program
We know:
Xi is Bernoulli distributed with parameter
Xis are independent
Y Bin(n, ).
Note that
the number of trials is fixed,
the probability of success is the same for each trial, and
the trials are independent.
Y Bin(n, )
0.4 0.4
= 0.1 = 0.3
0.3 0.3
p(x)
p(x)
0.2 0.2
0.1 0.1
0.0 0.0
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
x x
0.4 0.4
= 0.5 = 0.8
0.3 0.3
p(x)
p(x)
0.2 0.2
0.1 0.1
0.0 0.0
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
x x
p(x) = (1 )x1 , x = 1, 2, 3, . . .
Example:
Suppose a batter has probability 13 to hit the ball. What is the chance that
he misses the ball less than 3 times?
Example:
Suppose that of 100 applicants for a job 50 were women and 50 were men,
all equally qualified. If we select 10 applicants at random what is the
probability that x of them are female?
The number of chosen female applicants is hypergeometrically distributed
with parameters 100, 50, and 10. The frequency function is
50 50
x 10x
p(x) = 100 for x {0, . . . , n}
10
for x = 0, 1, . . . , 10.
Characteristics
Let X be the number of times a certain event occurs during a given
unit of time (or in a given area, etc).
The probability that the event occurs in a given unit of time is
the same for all the units.
The number of events that occur in one unit of time is inde-
pendent of the number of events in other units.
The mean (or expected) rate is .
with = n .
Statistical model:
Each soldier is kicked to death by a horse with probability .
Let Y be the number of such fatalities in one corps. Then
Y Bin(n, )
1.0 1.0
1 1
= 400 = 10
0.8 0.8
0.6 0.6
p(x)
p(x)
0.4 0.4
0.2 0.2
0.0 0.0
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
x x
0.5 1 0.5
= 40 =1
0.4 0.4
0.3 0.3
p(x)
p(x)
0.2 0.2
0.1 0.1
0.0 0.0
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
x x
0.2 1 0.2
= 8 =5
p(x)
p(x)
0.1 0.1
0.0 0.0
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
x x
1
0.2
= 4
0.2
= 10
p(x)
p(x)
0.1 0.1
0.0 0.0
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
x x
40
Uniform distribution U (0, )
U(0, )
30
Range (0, 1)
Frequency
1
20
f (x) = 1(0,) (x)
10
(X) =
2
0
2 2 1 0 1 2 3 4
var(X) = X
12
40
Exponential distribution Exp() Exp()
30
Range [0, ) Frequency
20
f (x) = exp(x)1[0,) (x)
1
10
(X) =
1
0
var(X) = 2 2 1 0 1 2 3 4
X
40
Normal distribution N (, 2 )
N(, 2)
30
Range
Frequency
1 1
20
2
f (x) = exp 2 (x)
2 2 2
10
(X) =
var(X) = 2
0
2 1 0 1 2 3 4
X
6
4
2
0
2