DISCRETE RANDOM VARIABLES AND

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS

2021/2022

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Examples:
• Tossing a coin (Head or Tail)
• Recording the gender of the new-born (Male or Female)
• Observing the result of a student in the test (Pass or Fail)
• Result of an analysis of infection with a specific disease (infected or not infected)
• Checking a product from a factory (Good or Defective)

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• n>20
•n/N<0.1
Hypergeometric Binomial • p<0.05 Poisson
•p=K/N
• λ= n×p

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