Questions tagged [binomial]
The binomial distribution gives the frequencies of "successes" in a fixed number of independent "trials". Use this tag for questions about data that might be binomially distributed or for questions about the theory of this distribution.
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Question related to equation in paper involving bernoulli process
So I'm reading a paper about optimization of design of structures.
The author defines H(p) as the function that returns the cost of failure given decision variable <...
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What is the distribution of the difference between two random numbers?
I have a big bag of balls, each one marked with a number between 0 and $n$. The same number may appear on more than one ball. We can assume that the numbers on the balls follow a binomial distribution....
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specific equation for modified wilson confidence interval
I recently read the Brown, Cai, Dasgupta paper on interval estimation for a binomial proportion where they propose the modified wilson method as a better alternative to the standard wald interval. I ...
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Confidence Interval for accuracy - Binomial?
Imagine we fit the same data mining model on 100 different validation datasets and accuracy is always exactly 95%. If we now use the Binomial proportion confidence interval we would have a standard ...
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A priori contrast for binomial GLM
after much reading I decided to write because I cannot find a solution to my question.
I already did a priori contrasts before for a continuous variable with normal distribution. Now I have another ...
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How is the standard deviation in this coin tossing experiment calculated?
I'm reading Hypothesis Testing: The Basics, there is such an experiment:
So, we have a coin. Our null hypothesis is that this coin is fair. We
flip it 100 times and it comes up heads 51 times. Do ...
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Standard deviation of sum of samples from Bernoulli/Binomial
This should be simple I hope. In lecture notes from a physics course, the professor writes:
$\text{Prob(success)}=\dfrac{k}{N}$. So query $q$ times, see some number $\mathcal{l}$ successes and ...
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How do we perform residual analysis on binomial model with small counts?
I know that both Pearson and Deviance residuals tend to be approximately normal for Poisson and Binomial model with large counts when standardized, so we can exploit that to perform the residual ...
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Type I and II errors accounted for by one equation?
On this website:
https://clincalc.com/stats/samplesize.aspx
both type I and II errors are accounted for by the one equation.
Surely, because a type I error involves too much positive variance and a ...
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Validate Binomial distribution exercise with pullets and cockerels
The exercise is as follows:
The owner of chicken farm knows, that the event of hatching out a cockerel is three time more frequent than a pullet.
One should count the probability, that from five ...
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binomial glm where number of trials is also a predictor
I am modeling the probability of success $p_i$ under a binomial framework. In fact I am actually modeling $x_i \sim Bin\left( n_i, p_i\right)$ being the number of trial varying along each observation. ...
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Two approaches for finding a MLE in a binomial setting
I'm learning towards an exam in mathematical statistics and I came across the following question. I was wondering if the second approach of solving the question is legitimate. If both are correct, is ...
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Test for average of independent, non-Identical binomial distributions
I have a box with $m$ coins, each with a probability $p_i$ for $1\leq i \leq m$ of flipping heads. As an experiment, I flip each coin $n_i$ times, recording the results.
What is a statistical test I ...
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Assess statistical significance with before & after binomial data from few participants
For the quantitative analysis of a pedagogical approach, I applied a series of (equivalent) tests prior and after lessons. I want to evaluate the reading (proper identification of sounds from written ...
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Unbiased estimator of binomial PMF
Is there an unbiased estimator of PMF of a random variable $Y=\sum_{i=1}^{n} X_n $ where $X_i$ are independent Bernoulli trials with probability $p$, that is, the estimator of:
\begin{equation}\tag{1}
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Should I use a binomial glm, beta regression, uniform continuous distribution or nls with logistic regression for probabilities?
I made an individual based model in which there is a population of three types of individuals (lizards) that disperse randomly until they encounter another individual that has a beneficial effect on ...
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Simple arithmetic approximations to categorical analyses
Suppose I have a two by two table:
$$
\begin{array}{c|ccc} & Y & \neg Y & \\ \hline
X & a & b& &\\
\neg X & c & d& &\\
\end{array}
$$
and I am interested ...
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Binomial CDF - Wikipedia vs Reality
The Binomial distribution article on Wikipedia defines the binomial CDF as
$F_{Bin(n,p)}(k) = I_{1-p}(n-k, k+1)$,
where $I$ is the regularized incomplete beta function.
There is a proof for the ...
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Deriving likelihood function of binomial distribution, confusion over exponents
This question focuses on a specific aspect of this one:
How to derive the likelihood function for binomial distribution for parameter estimation?
In my own derivation, I start with:
$$f(x\mid p) = ...
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Compare species count data between sites
I'm comparing species counts between areas. My data is very similar to the below.
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Reporting zero inflated negative binomial regression in APA style
I have results to a Zero-inflated negative binomial regression. What is the general "formula" to reporting the significance of a coefficient in the APA style. Is it similar to the "formula" for ...
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Probability distribution for draws with conditional replacement? (or how many matches does it take to beat Yugi The Destiny?)
While trying to figure out an old video game, I seem to have stumbled upon a problem that's halfway between a binomial distribution problem and a hyper-geometric distribution problem. With the hopes ...
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Binary coin toss statistics
I'm really new to statistics and I'm working on a project where I'm basically trying to rig a coin toss. I have three groups and $n = 50$ tosses for each group: Control (24/50 success) vs treatment 1 ...
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How was p-value calculated in this Wikipedia example of a Binomial test
Consider the following example from This binomial test wikipedia article:
Suppose we have a board game that depends on the roll of one die and attaches special importance to rolling a 6. In a ...
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Expectation of a discrete random variable that is case-defined from other discrete random variables
Background
The question arises from the following real-life situation: I buy a newspaper at 3 dollars and sell it at 6 dollars. I know the demand for news paper is a binomial random variable with $n=...
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When calculating sum of observation in Bayes Theorem, why do we remove one outcome?
relatively quick question regarding this course question:
Hearing about your brilliant success in working with M&Ms, Mars Inc. transfers you over to the Skittles department. They recently have ...
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Hypothesis Testing For Binomial Distribution
I have come across the following problem which confused me quite a lot and would be helpful to get your comments:
Problem
Suppose we are testing a newly programmed random number generator. We use ...
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Binomial distribution as likelihood in Bayesian modeling. When (not) to use it?
I am currently trying to figure out some strangeness about using the Binomial distribution in Bayesian modeling to define the likelihood.
To make an example assume I have two conditions, and in each ...
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Statistics of a function of a binomial variable
I'm struggling with a statistics problem. Sadly, I'm not a statistician. Maybe someone here who knows more than me (a low bar) can offer some pointers.
I have a population that gets divided, ...
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Testing the goodness-of-fit for the binomial distribution
As specified in the title, I'm trying to understand how to test the goodness-of-fit for the binomial distribution; to this aim, I followed what suggested in this link.
Particularly, I'm investigating ...
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Moment generating function of binomial distribution
I have a test statistics $S(\theta_0) = $ number of $[X_i>0] $ that follows a binomail distribution iwth $p=\frac{1}{2}$. With the standardized test statitics is $S=\frac{S(\theta_0)-(\frac{n}{2})}{...
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when an exact binomial confidence interval should be used?
Is exact binomial confidence interval only appropriate for extremely rare events or extremely frequent events? If so, what are the rule of thumb for the definitions of extremely rare (<0.01?) And ...
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How to realize binomial test in R using data? [closed]
I should do test these data using binomial test (2 first tasks). I have no idea how to do this! I will appreciate any help or mind-joggers!
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Binomial distribution, hypotheses testing
Suppose the following instance of the hypotheses testing:
suppose that the true state of the coin is that it is either exactly fair, or that it shows heads with probability $0.51$, and there are no ...
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Confidence interval for the square of binomial probability
I have a binomial distribution where the estimate for p is 0.03 out of 1000 sample trials.
Using the normal approximation and Chi-square distribution for the square of normal distribution, how can I ...
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Estimate probability from sample frequency in a binomial distribution [duplicate]
If I get $s$ successes out of $n$ trials in a binomial distribution, what is the probability $p$ of getting a success in each individual trial?
Presumably $p = s/n$, but what if $s = 0$ or $s = n$? ...
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Square of Binomial is Chi-Square?
my statistics professor said in passing that if you square the binomial test statistic, you can derive the chi-square statistic. I tried working out the proof, but I can't seem to reduce the chi-...
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Binomial and Normal distribution X~N(18,5^2) [closed]
I'm stuck with a problem related to binomial and Normal distribution.
Suppose the amount of time a laptop battery holds its charge is:
$X \sim N(18,5^2)$
Suppose there are 40 students and there is ...
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Probability of sum of sequences of integers
Let K be a positive integer.Suppose that the integers 1,2,3,...,3k+1are written down in random order.What is the probability that at no time during this process, the sum of the integers that have been ...
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Fairness of 6 sided die NOT using Chi Square Test
So I was reading a lot of online articles using the chi-square test to determine the fairness of a die.
Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't the drawbacks of using a goodness of fit test is that you ...
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Mixed-effect logistic regression in R, Error: no random effect specified
In a study per-field disease incidences were collected by sampling 35 plants in each field and counting proportion of infected ones (# of infected/total sampled). In result, each sampling location ...
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Test for significant differences in two groups of binomial data
In a study per-field disease incidences were collected by sampling 35 plants in each field and counting proportion of infected ones (# of infected/total sampled). In result, each sampling location ...
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Zero inflated binomial for excessive zeros
"What are some tricks for dealing with a zero inflated response variable when tackling a machine learning regression problem?"
Answer :
"One of the easiest and most intuitive methods is to run a ...
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Determining sample size for a binomial distribution for a given confidence interval when the probability is close to 0 or 1
I've found formulas for determining sample size for when the probability isn't close to 0 to 1. However for the case when it is close to 0 or 1 I'm unable to find any formulas.
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What does it mean to model data as binomial?
On Wikipedia it says
[T]he binomial distribution with parameters $n$ and $p$ is the
discrete probability distribution of the number of successes in a
sequence of n independent experiments, ...
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Bayesian inference - iterative updating with Bernoulli distribution (solved)
Suppose I pull samples from a Bernoulli distribution $\mathcal{B}(\theta)$
I don't know the value of $\theta$, but in my case I know that $\theta$ can only have 11 discrete values, $\theta \in \{0....
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Double exponential family
The double exponential family is defined by
$\bar{f}(y;\mu,\theta) =c(\mu,\theta)\theta^\frac{1}{2}e_Y(y;\mu)^\theta e_Y(y;y)^{1-\theta} $
For the double Poisson distribution, several papers state ...
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Is there any better alternative to Linear Probability Model?
I read here, here, here, and elsewhere that linear probability model (LPM) might be used to get risk differences when the outcome variable is binomial.
LPM has some advantages such as ease of ...
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Tukey to check level differences after binomial logistic regression with glm()
I wonder whether the method proposed at this link is correct for my case: Comparing levels of factors after a GLM in R
I want to use a binomial logistic regression to assess differences between the 3 ...
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Reporting binomial logistic regression
I want to report the results of a binomial logistic regression where I want to assess difference between the 3 levels of a factor (called System) on the dependent variable (called Response) taking two ...
