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Probability Mass Function | The binomial distribution is used when there are exactly two mutually exclusive outcomes of a trial. These outcomes are appropriately labeled "success" and "failure". The binomial distribution is used to obtain the probability of observing x successes in N trials, with the probability of success on a single trial denoted by p. The binomial distribution assumes that p is fixed for all trials.The formula for the binomial probability mass function is where The following is the plot of the binomial probability density function for four values of p and n = 100. | ||||||||||||||
Cumulative Distribution Function | The formula for the binomial cumulative probability function is The following is the plot of the binomial cumulative distribution function with the same values of p as the pdf plots above. | ||||||||||||||
Percent Point Function | The binomial percent point function does not exist in simple closed form. It is computed numerically. Note that because this is a discrete distribution that is only defined for integer values of x, the percent point function is not smooth in the way the percent point function typically is for a continuous distribution.The following is the plot of the binomial percent point function with the same values of p as the pdf plots above. | ||||||||||||||
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Comments | The binomial distribution is probably the most commonly used discrete distribution. | ||||||||||||||
Parameter Estimation | The maximum likelihood estimator of p (n is fixed) is | ||||||||||||||
Software | Most general purpose statistical software programs support at least some of the probability functions for the binomial distribution. |
Double Exponential Distribution Probability Density Function The general formula for the probability density function of the double exponential distribution is where is the location parameter and is the scale parameter . The case where = 0 and = 1 is called the standard double exponential distribution . The equation for the standard double exponential distribution is Since the general form of probability functions can be expressed in terms of the standard distribution , all subsequent formulas in this section are given for the standard form of the function. The following is the plot of the double exponential probability density function. Cumulative Distribution Function The formula for the cumulative distribution function of the double exponential distribution is The following is the plot of the double exponential cumulative distribution function. Percent Point Function The formula for the percent point function of the double exponential distribution
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