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Usage and meaning of specific technical words/concepts in statistics.
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Why are the geometric distribution and hypergeometric distribution called as such?
According to one source, it is because for the geometric distribution pmf(k) is the geometric mean of pmf(k-1) and pmf(k+1). The geometric mean of two numbers A and B is $\sqrt{A B}$. Classically th …