Form of the binomial PMF. Consider a binomial random variable X with parameters n and p. Let k* be the largest integer that is less than or equal to (n + 1)p. Show that the PMF px(k) is monotonically nondecreasing with k in the range from 0 to k*, and is monotonically decreasing with k for k ? k*.
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