" /> MathDL - The MAA Mathematical Sciences Digital Library
Skip to content
Search

Search Course Communities:

Keyword

  Advanced Search
The Mathematical Association of America
The National Science Digital Library Project
The National Science Foundation
Register Sign In

Course Communities

Hypergeometric Distribution - Introduction  


Course Topic(s): Probability | Discrete Distributions, hypergeometric

This is a basic overview of the hypergeometric distribution with descriptions of expectation, variance, covariance, skewness, kurtosis, and hypergeometric function. It also has a small example using the "urn problem."

Resource URL: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/HypergeometricDistribution.html


To rate this resource on a 1-5 scheme, click on the appropriate icosahedron:

12345 Current rating: 2.9number of votes: 193
12345



Subject classification(s): Statistics and Probability | Probability | Univariate Distributions

Creator(s): Eric W. Weisstein

Contributor(s): Eric W. Weisstein

This resource was cataloged by Natasha Gerstenschlager

Publisher:
Wolfram Research

Resource copyright: Wolfram Research

This review was published on October 09, 2012

Related Resources


Comments


Report a problem with this resource.


Discuss this resource

Be the first to start a discussion about this resource.

start a new discussion thread

MathDL Homepage MathDL Homepage National Science Digital Library The Mathematical Association of America