Grinstead-Snell-Probability · Problem 5.1.44

Distributions and Densities

Mathematics · hypergeometric-distribution

Problem

Suppose that in the hypergeometric distribution, we let NN and kk tend to ∞\infty in such a way that the ratio k/Nk/N approaches a real number pp between 0 and 1. Show that the hypergeometric distribution tends to the binomial distribution with parameters nn and pp.

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