On Wed, 24 Mar 2021 18:45:01 -0700
<Name suppressed to protect the innocent> wrote:
> "X = {X_1, X_2, ..., X_N} where each X_i
> is an integer between 0 and n (n known a priori)"
>
> That is a multinomial, not a binomial distribution. A binomial
> distribution can have only two values, success or failure.
>
> What have I misunderstood?
And then, following up:
> Oh, I think I get what you mean -- you are drawing repeated samples
> from a binomial with n trials and you are counting the number of
> successes for each.
Yes. Exactly. Sorry if my post was unclear.
cheers,
Rolf Turner
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