Quote:
Originally Posted by Fat Elvis
I find this all very fascinating. I really appreciate your help and time explaining this to me.
When using a Bernoulli, would you use the same methods to calculate the observation of two (or three or more) successes (not necessarily consecutive)? Or is using a Bernoulli limited to coding a single success or failure?
|
The Wikipedia entries on mathematical topics tend to be quite reliable. The page on the Bernoulli distribution mentions the appropriate related distribution that applies to your question, which is the Binomial. The Bernoulli is for a single trial. The Binomial pertains to the number of successes observed in n independent trials from the same Bernoulli distribution.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernoulli_distribution