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first success distribution

first success distribution noun: shifted geometric distribution.

Noun

first success distribution (plural first success distributions)

  1. Shifted geometric distribution.
    • In a sequence of independent Bernoulli trials with success probability p, let Y be the number of trials until the first successful trial, including the success. Then Y has the First Success distribution with parameter p; we denote this by Y ∼ FS(p).2019, Joseph K. Blitzstein, Jessica Hwang, “Expectation” (chapter 4), in Introduction to Probability, 2nd edition, CRC Press, Geometric and Negative Binomial (section 3)

Forms of first success distribution

pluralfirst success distributions

Questions about first success distribution

What does first success distribution mean?
First success distribution means shifted geometric distribution.
What part of speech is first success distribution?
First success distribution is a noun.
What is the plural of first success distribution?
The plural of first success distribution is first success distributions.

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