When Dealing with the Number of Occurrences of an Event

question 52

Multiple Choice

When dealing with the number of occurrences of an event over a specified interval of time or space and when the occurrence or nonoccurrence in any interval is independent of the occurrence or nonoccurrence in any other interval, the appropriate probability distribution is a _____.

• A) binomial distribution
• B) Poisson distribution
• C) normal distribution
• D) hypergeometric probability distribution

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