Name of the Topic: BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION

Examination: 1st Continuous Assessment (1st CA)

Name: SUPRAVAT NASKAR
Roll Number: 35601920060
Registration Number: 203560201910004
Semester: 8th
Year: 4th
Subject: BIOSTATISTICS AND RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
Paper Code: PT-817
Academic Session: 2023-2024

Global College of Pharmaceutical Technology

(A Unit of National Centre for Development of Technical Education)
 BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION

INTRODUCTION:

Binomial distribution was given by Swiss mathematician James

Bernouli(1654-1705) in 1700 and it was first published in 1713. It is also
known as “Bernouli Distribution'

Binomial distribution is a discrete probability distribution which is obtained

when the probability (p) of the happening of an event is same in all the trials,
and there are only two events in each trial.

E.g...The probability of getting a head, when a coin is tossed a number of times,

must remains same in each toss i.e. P= ½

The probabilities of occurrence of the events of the experiment are the same in
all the trials. In all the n trials, the observations are independent of one another
and the binomial probability distribution is represented as,
P (x success in n trials)= 𝑛𝐶𝑥 𝑃 𝑥 𝑞 𝑛−𝑥
Where, x = 0,1,2,3,……,n.
PROPERTIES OF BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION

• Binomial distribution consists of a fixed number of observations called trials.

Each trial can result as outcomes as success (s) and failure (f).

• The probability of outcome of any trial is independent of the result of

previous trial.

• Binomial (bi-parametric) distribution is characterized by two parameters n

and p. The shape and location of binomial distribution changes as 'p'
changes for a given 'n' or 'n' changes for a given ‘p’

• This is distribution of discrete variable, mean (𝑥)ҧ = np. variance (𝜎²) = npq
and standard deviation (𝜎) = 𝑛𝑝𝑞
Example 1 : The mean of a binomial distribution is 40 and its standard deviation is 6. Calculate n, p, q

Solution: Here, Mean (x) = np = 40

Standard deviation(𝜎) = 𝑛𝑝𝑞 = 6

i.e. npq = 36

64 36
q= = = 0.9
𝑛𝑝 40

p = 1-q = 1-0.9 = 0.1

np = 40

40 40
n= = = 400
𝑝 0.1

∴ n = 400, p = 0.1, q = 0.9

Example 2 : Multipunch tablet machine produces 12% defective tablets. What is the probability
that out of random sample of 20 tablets produced by the machine, 4 are defective?

Solution: Let x is the number of defective tablets in a sample of 20 tablets

n = 20

p = probability of tablets are defective = 0.12

q = 1- p = 1-0.12 = 0.88

Now, p(x= r) = 𝐶𝑟𝑛 𝑝𝑟 𝑞 𝑛−𝑟

p(x= 4) = 𝐶420 (0.12)4 (0.88)16