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The Geometric Distribution: The First Success of a Bernoulli Distribution

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Mathematics

The geometric distribution is a very intuitive probability density that is also derived from independent Bernoulli. The geometric distribution quantifies the probability that the first success of a Bernoulli process will occur on the n-th trial.

This video was produced at the University of Washington, and we acknowledge funding support from the Boeing Company

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00:00 Intro
02:39 Deriving the Geometric Distribution
06:40 Example: At least N die rolls
10:18 Alternate Computation
12:33 Outro