Index: The Book of Statistical ProofsProbability DistributionsUnivariate discrete distributionsBernoulli distribution ▷ Definition

Definition: Let $X$ be a random variable. Then, $X$ is said to follow a Bernoulli distribution with success probability $p$

\[\label{eq:bern} X \sim \mathrm{Bern}(p) \; ,\]

if $X = 1$ with probability $p$ and $X = 0$ with probability $q = 1-p$.

 
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Metadata: ID: D44 | shortcut: bern | author: JoramSoch | date: 2020-03-22, 17:40.