The order statistics of independent random variables each having the same negative binomial distribution are discussed. Recurrence relations for probability generating functions and moments of the ...

Barry S. Griffin, Richard G. Krutchkoff, An Empirical Bayes Estimator for P [Success] in the Binomial Distribution, Sankhyā: The Indian Journal of Statistics, Series B (1960-2002), Vol. 33, No. 3/4 ...

Second, the binomial distribution assumes that we know the intrinsic probability of an event occurring, as we would with a dice roll or coin flip. But we never really know what a baseball player’s ...