IJPAM: Volume 90, No. 4 (2014)
AN IMPROVED BINOMIAL TO APPROXIMATE
THE HYPERGEOMETRIC DISTRIBUTION
THE HYPERGEOMETRIC DISTRIBUTION
K. Teerapabolarn
Department of Mathematics
Faculty of Science
Burapha University
Chonburi, 20131, THAILAND
Department of Mathematics
Faculty of Science
Burapha University
Chonburi, 20131, THAILAND
Abstract. We give an improved binomial distribution with parameters n and p=m/N for approximating the hypergeometric distribution with parameters N, m and n. The improved approximation is more accurate than the binomial approximation when N is sufficiently large.
Received: November 22, 2013
AMS Subject Classification: 62E17, 60F05
Key Words and Phrases: binomial approximation, binomial probability function, hypergeometric probability function
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DOI: 10.12732/ijpam.v90i4.12 How to cite this paper?
Source: International Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics
ISSN printed version: 1311-8080
ISSN on-line version: 1314-3395
Year: 2014
Volume: 90
Issue: 4
