6 March 2010 View Comments

The Binomial Distribution / Binomial Probability Function

The Binomial Distribution / Binomial Probability Function

1 When can you use the binomial formula?

We want to know how many times something does or doesn’t happen e.g. rolling a
die multiple times:

can use binomial if we want to know “number of sixes”
can’t use binomial if we want to know “sum of rolls”