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Key Concepts

Sequential Experiments and Stopping Rules

Sequential experiments involve performing trials one after the other under possibly varying conditions, where the outcome of each trial can influence the continuation or termination of the experiment. Stopping rules are criteria defined to halt the experiment once a specific condition, such as a set number of successes, is met. This concept is particularly important in understanding processes that are governed by distributions like the negative binomial.

Bernoulli Trials

Bernoulli trials refer to experiments or processes that result in one of two outcomes – typically termed as ‘success’ or ‘failure’ – with the probability of success remaining constant across trials. They are the foundational concept for modelling binary events, such as coin flips, and form the basis for many discrete probability distributions.

Negative Binomial Distribution

The negative binomial distribution models the number of failures that occur before achieving a fixed number of successes in a sequence of independent Bernoulli trials. It is particularly useful in scenarios where the process stops once a predetermined number of successful outcomes is attained, and it provides the probability mass function for the number of failures observed.

Probability Mass Function (PMF)

A probability mass function (PMF) is a function that gives the probability that a discrete random variable is exactly equal to a specific value. In the context of distributions such as the negative binomial, the PMF provides a formula to compute the likelihood of observing a particular number of failures based on the parameters defining the success probability and the required number of successes.

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