Bernoulli Distribution - University of Chicago
Classical example from von Bortkiewicz (1898). – Number of fatalities resulting from being kicked by a horse – 200 observations (10 corps over a period of 20 years) Statistical model: – Each soldier is kicked to death by a horse with probability µ. – Let Y be the number of such fatalities in one corps. Then Y » Bin(n;µ)
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