Related Distributions
- If are independent, identically distributed (i.i.d.) random variables, all Bernoulli distributed with success probability p, then (binomial distribution). The Bernoulli distribution is simply .
- The categorical distribution is the generalization of the Bernoulli distribution for variables with any constant number of discrete values.
- The Beta distribution is the conjugate prior of the Bernoulli distribution.
- The geometric distribution is the number of Bernoulli trials needed to get one success.
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