geometric distributions

Noun

geometric distribution (plural geometric distributions)

1. Either of two slightly different discrete probability distributions, each based on repetitions of a trial with "success" probability p: (1) the number X of trials required to obtain one success, or (2) the number Y = X − 1 of failed trials before the first success.
   • If S₁ had been chosen to be a geometric distribution, no a priori choices would have been necessary. This distribution was effective in Suppes (1970), but it would provide a poor fit in this case. If the geometric distribution had been used here, the parameter S₁ would have appeared in every...1973, Elizabeth M. Gammon, “A Syntactical Analysis of Some First-Grade Readers”, in K. J. J. Hintikka, P. Suppes, J.M.E. Moravcsik, editors, Approaches to Natural Language: Proceedings of the 1970...