Week 17: Hyper-geometric Distribution

The probability distribution of a hypergeometric random variable is called a hypergeometric distribution. This lesson describes how hypergeometric random variables, hypergeometric experiments, hypergeometric probability, and the hypergeometric distribution are all related.

Notation

The following notation is helpful, when we talk about hypergeometric distributions and hypergeometric probability.

  • N: The number of items in the population.
  • k: The number of items in the population that are classified as successes.
  • n: The number of items in the sample.
  • x: The number of items in the sample that are classified as successes.

Download Files

999.pdf (0.16 MB )