Week 14 — Discrete Distribution (Binomial, Poisson)

In week 14, the following topics were discussed:

  1. Discrete Distribution – Expressed in the form of a table, Expected Value E(X), Variance VAR(X)
  2. Special Distribution — Binomial
    - 2 outcomes, namely success/failure
    - 2 parameters (n, p), where n is the number of trials, p is the probability of success
  3. Special Distribution — Poisson
    - average number of outcome per time interval or per specified region
    - 1 parameter (λ Lambda), where λ is the average number of outcome
    - Note that λ value will need to be changed according to situations

The materials used during lecture and tutorial lessons can be found below:

wk14 Discrete Distribution (handout)

wk14 Speical Discrete Distribution (handout)

wk 14 Tutorial 9-10

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