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binomial distribution  

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  • describes the probability of an event or outcome occurring, such as a person passing or failing or being a woman or a man, on a number of independent occasions or trials when the event has the same probability of occurring on each occasion. The binomial theorem can be used to calculate these probabilities. [Source: The SAGE Dictionary of Statistics; binomial distribution]

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