-------------------------------------------------------------- Binomial, Bernoulli Trials SW 3.8 Albino ex SW Table 3.5, pp. 103-4 number albino children = sum two Bernoulli Trials with prob 1/4 > dbinom(0:2, s=2, p=1/4) [1] 0.5625 0.3750 0.0625 > k = 0:2 > list(k, dbinom(k, s=2, p=1/4)) [[1]] [1] 0 1 2 [[2]] [1] 0.5625 0.3750 0.0625 > pbinom(1, s=2, p=1/4) [1] 0.9375 Mutants SW Ex 3.45 pp106-7 > k = 0:5 > list(k, dbinom(k, s=5, p=.39)) [[1]] [1] 0 1 2 3 4 5 [[2]] [1] 0.08445963 0.26999390 0.34523810 0.22072600 0.07055995 0.00902242 matches SW minitab output Blood Type SW Ex 3.47 pp.108-9 > k = 0:6 > list(k, dbinom(k, s=6, p=.85)) [[1]] [1] 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 [[2]] [1] 1.139063e-05 3.872813e-04 5.486484e-03 4.145344e-02 1.761771e-01 3.993348e-01 3.771495e-01 > 1 - dbinom(6, s=6, p=.85) [1] 0.6228505 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Discrete Distributions: Binomial-Poisson approx for np, p small MTB > pdf; |MTB > pdf; SUBC> poisson 1. |SUBC> binomial 1000 .001. POISSON WITH MEAN = 1.000 | BINOMIAL WITH N =1000 P = 0.001000 K P( X = K) | K P( X = K) 0 0.3679 | 0 0.3677 1 0.3679 | 1 0.3681 2 0.1839 | 2 0.1840 3 0.0613 | 3 0.0613 4 0.0153 | 4 0.0153 5 0.0031 | 5 0.0030 6 0.0005 | 6 0.0005 7 0.0001 | 7 0.0001 8 0.0000 | 8 0.0000 | Agresti Table 1.1 p.5 MTB > pdf; MTB > pdf ; SUBC> poisson 2. SUBC> binomial 10 .2. Poisson with mu = 2.00000 Binomial with n = 10 and p = 0.20 x P( X = x) x P( X = x) 0 0.1353 0 0.1074 1 0.2707 1 0.2684 2 0.2707 2 0.3020 3 0.1804 3 0.2013 4 0.0902 4 0.0881 5 0.0361 5 0.0264 6 0.0120 6 0.0055 7 0.0034 7 0.0008 8 0.0009 8 0.0001 9 0.0002 9 0.0000 10 0.0000 match less good.