BINOMIAL

DISTRIBUTION
Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering II
BASICS AND TERMILOGY
BASICS AND TERMILOGY
DEFINITION
The discrete probability distribution
which gives only two possible results in
an experiment, either SUCCESS or
FAILURE.
NOTATION(Parameters) FOR BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTIONS
NOTATION(Parameters) FOR BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTIONS
ASSUMPTIONS FOR BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION
METHOD FOR FINDING PROBABILITIES
USING THE BINOMIAL PROBABILITY FORMULA
Binomial Probability Distribution
A binomial experiment is a probability experiment with the following
characteristics:
 The experiment has n identical trials.
 Two outcomes are possible on each trial – one trial is termed a
success and the other is termed a failure.
 The probability of a success occurring on each trial is p. This
probability p is the same on each trial.
 Since the outcome must either be a success or failure, a failure is
the complement of a success and the probability of a failure is 1-p.
(Some texts refer to this probability as q, that is, q=1-p).
 The trials are independent of each other.
SHAPE OF BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION
BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTIONS FOR DIFFERENT VALUES OF N WITH
p=0.2
APPLICATIONS FOR BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTIONS
 MEASURES OF CENTRAL TENDENCY AND
DISPERSION FOR BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION
 Example – number of females selected in a random sample of size 3
from a large population of half males and half females.

x is the number of x f(x)

females selected and 0 1/8 = 0.125

f(x) is the probability of x 1 3/8 = 0.375
females being selected 2 3/8 = 0.375
3 1/8 = 0.125
Total 8/8 = 1.000

The above distribution is a binomial probability distribution with success

defined as selecting a female. There are n = 3 independent trials, the
probability of success is p = 0.5, and x is the number of successes. In this
experiment, selecting a male is termed a failure, and the probability of
selecting a male is 1-p = 1-0.5 = 0.5.
EXAMPLES
EXAMPLES
 Lets say that 80% of all business startups in the IT
industry report that they generate a profit in ther
first year. I a sample of 10 new IT business
starups is selected, find the probability that
exactly seven will generate a profit in their first
year
Interpretation

 There is a 201.13% probability that exactly 7 of 10 IT

startups will generate a profit in their first year when
the probability of profit in the first year for each startup
is 80%
CREDITS
Prof. Bart Selman (selman@cs.cornell.edu)
Tayab Ali ( ME-Industrial and Production
Jorhat Engineering College )