Binary Variable/Examples/Bernoulli Trial

Example of Binary Variable

The outcome of a Bernoulli trial may be implemented as a binary variable.

Hence, for example, the outcome from a coin-tossing exercise: heads may be encoded as $0$, and tails as $1$.

Sources

• 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): binary variable
• 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): binary variable