Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hypergeometric random variable

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.90 in modern English

Syllables: hy-per-ge-o-met-ric ran-dom -vari-able
IPA

49

Scrabble Score

28

Letters

9

Syllables

17

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A random variable whose probability distribution is a hypergeometric distribution.

Example Sentences

"Computer generation of classical hypergeometric random variables has been discussed in detail by Kachitvichyanukul and Schmeiser (1985)."
"Chapter 6 introduces testing of hypotheses immediately after the study of binomial and hypergeometric random variables."
"If #92;textstyleX is a hypergeometric random variable, then the variance is #92;textstyleVar(X)#61;#92;left(#92;frac#123;M#125;#123;N#125;#92;right)n#92;left(1-#92;frac#123;M#125;#123;N#125;#92;right)#92;left(1-#92;frac#123;n-1#125;#123;N-1#125;#92;right)."
"Thus, whereas the expected value of the hypergeometric random variable with parameters n, N, p is the same as that of the binomial random variable with parameters n, p, its variance is smaller than that of the binomial by the factor (N − n)/(N − 1)."

Inflected Forms

hypergeometric random variables (plural)

Questions

What does hypergeometric random variable mean?: A random variable whose probability distribution is a hypergeometric distribution.

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