Category:Negative Binomial Distribution

This category contains results about the negative binomial distribution.
Definitions specific to this category can be found in Definitions/Negative Binomial Distribution.

Let $X$ be a discrete random variable on a probability space $\struct {\Omega, \Sigma, \Pr}$.

There are two forms of the negative binomial distribution, as follows:

First Form

$X$ has the negative binomial distribution (of the first form) with parameters $n$ and $p$ if:

$\Img X = \set {0, 1, 2, \ldots}$

$\map \Pr {X = k} = \dbinom {n + k - 1} {n - 1} p^k \paren {1 - p}^n$

where $0 < p < 1$.

It is frequently seen as:

$\map \Pr {X = k} = \dbinom {n + k - 1} {n - 1} p^k q^n$

where $q = 1 - p$.

Second Form

$X$ has the negative binomial distribution (of the second form) with parameters $n$ and $p$ if:

$\Img X = \set {n, n + 1, n + 2, \dotsc}$

$\map \Pr {X = k} = \dbinom {k - 1} {n - 1} p^n \paren {1 - p}^{k - n}$

where $0 < p < 1$.

It is frequently seen as:

$\map \Pr {X = k} = \dbinom {k - 1} {n - 1} q^{k - n} p^n $

where $q = 1 - p$.