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OpenStudy (anonymous):

what is geometric distribution? please explain or show an example

OpenStudy (anonymous):

I'm not sure myself but I found this and it might help http://www.stat.iastate.edu/homepages/mervyn/Stat330B_Spring2012/Lectures/Set10.pdf

OpenStudy (turingtest):

a geometric distribution is a series of yes/no trials (bernoulli trials) needed to get success for example, the probability that heads comes up on the kth trial is a geometric with variable X for probability P(X=k)

OpenStudy (anonymous):

wikipedia is a good source for information like this. There are actually two distributions with this name. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric_distribution.

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