Many applications of probability and statistics concern the repetition of an experiment. We call each repetition a trial, and we are particularly interested in cases in which the experiment (each trial) has only two possible outcomes: Success or failure, true or false, 0 or 1.
To analyze repeated trials of an experiment that has two possible outcomes, we require knowledge of factorials, binomial coefficients, and Bernoulli trials.
On the basis of those prerequisites we learn about the the binomial distribution, which is a probability distribution for the number of successes in a sequence of Bernoulli trials (Weiss 2010).
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The E-Learning project SOGA-Py was developed at the Department of Earth Sciences by Annette Rudolph, Joachim Krois and Kai Hartmann. You can reach us via mail by soga[at]zedat.fu-berlin.de.
Please cite as follow: Rudolph, A., Krois, J., Hartmann, K. (2023): Statistics and Geodata Analysis using Python (SOGA-Py). Department of Earth Sciences, Freie Universitaet Berlin.