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Negative binomial distribution: History, Applications & Products

In probability theory and statistics, the negative binomial distribution, also called a Pascal distribution, is a discrete probability distribution that models the number of failures in a sequence of independent and identically distributed Bernoulli trials before a specified/constant/fixed number of successes r {\displaystyle r} occur. (Sometimes the…

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Negative binomial distribution topic overview

The analysis highlights History, Applications and Products as prominent areas in the source structure around Negative binomial distribution.

Related topics
85
Source areas
6
Connected nodes
91
Extracted relationships
104
Concept neighborhoods
38
Bridge connections
91

What this topic covers Research coverage

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Occurrence and applications · 24 topics
Overview · 24 topics
Definitions · 15 topics
Related distributions · 15 topics
Properties · 4 topics
History · 3 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

CDF
k ↦ I p ( r , k + 1 ) , {\displaystyle k\mapsto I_{p}(r,\,k+1),} the regularized incomplete beta function
CF
( p 1 − ( 1 − p ) e i t ) r with t ∈ R {\displaystyle {\biggl (}{\frac {p}{1-(1-p)e^{i\,t}}}{\biggr )}^{\!r}{\text{ with }}t\in \mathbb {R} }
Excess kurtosis
6 r + p 2 ( 1 − p ) r {\displaystyle {\frac {6}{r}}+{\frac {p^{2}}{(1-p)r}}}
Fisher information
r p 2 ( 1 − p ) {\displaystyle {\frac {r}{p^{2}(1-p)}}}
Mean
r ( 1 − p ) p {\displaystyle {\frac {r(1-p)}{p}}}
Method of moments
r = E [ X ] 2 V [ X ] − E [ X ] {\displaystyle r={\frac {E[X]^{2}}{V[X]-E[X]}}} p = E [ X ] V [ X ] {\displaystyle p={\frac {E[X]}{V[X]}}}

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Overview

Definitions

Properties

Related distributions

Occurrence and applications

History

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How Negative binomial distribution connects Entity context

The extracted context around Negative binomial distribution shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Negative binomial distribution → And, Geom, Let, N/n, NB, Now, Np, Say, See, So, That, The, Then, This, Thus, To, We, Write Another extracted example is Negative binomial distribution → Failure, Failure Poisson, If, Poisson, Success, Success Poisson, That, The, The Success, Thus, To, Together. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Negative binomial distribution

Top relations

related to Expectation of successes · 18
Negative binomial distribution → And, Geom, Let, N/n, NB, Now, Np, Say, See, So, That, The, Then, This, Thus, To, We, Write
related to Gamma–Poisson mixture · 12
Negative binomial distribution → Failure, Failure Poisson, If, Poisson, Success, Success Poisson, That, The, The Success, Thus, To, Together
related to Overdispersed Poisson · 10
Negative binomial distribution → An, Europe, Hence, In, It, North Atlantic, Poisson, See Cumulants, Since, The
related to Multiplicity observations (physics) · 8
Negative binomial distribution → AA, In, Minkowski, Roughly, Scott, See, Tezlaf, The
related to Waiting time in a Bernoulli process · 8
Negative binomial distribution → Bernoulli, Consider, In, Let, Suppose, That, The, Therefore
related to Definitions · 6
Negative binomial distribution → Bernoulli, Imagine, In, NB, Then, We
related to Distribution of a sum of geometrically distributed random variables · 5
Negative binomial distribution → As, Bs, Furthermore, If Yr, Yr
related to Probability mass function · 5
Negative binomial distribution → Gamma, Here, Note, Pr, The
related to Representation as compound Poisson distribution · 5
Negative binomial distribution → Let, Log, NB, Poisson, The
related to Alternative formulations · 4
Negative binomial distribution → Each, Some, The, These

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Important terminology

distribution binomial displaystyle negative number probability successes failures mean poisson frac function variance success trials random 1-p sum mass left

Negative binomial distribution relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 104 structured relationships around Negative binomial distribution. Examples in this analysis include Negative binomial distribution → CDF → k ↦ I p ( r , k + 1 ) , {\displaystyle k\mapsto I_{p}(r,\,k+1),} the regularized incomplete beta function and Negative binomial distribution → CF → ( p 1 − ( 1 − p ) e i t ) r with t ∈ R {\displaystyle {\biggl (}{\frac {p}{1-(1-p)e^{i\,t}}}{\biggr )}^{\!r}{\text{ with }}t\in \mathbb {R} }. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

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Negative binomial distributionCDFk ↦ I p ( r , k + 1 ) , {\displaystyle k\mapsto I_{p}(r,\,k+1),} the regularized incomplete beta function1.00infobox
Negative binomial distributionCF( p 1 − ( 1 − p ) e i t ) r with t ∈ R {\displaystyle {\biggl (}{\frac {p}{1-(1-p)e^{i\,t}}}{\biggr )}^{\!r}{\text{ with }}t\in \mathbb {R} }1.00infobox
Negative binomial distributionExcess kurtosis6 r + p 2 ( 1 − p ) r {\displaystyle {\frac {6}{r}}+{\frac {p^{2}}{(1-p)r}}}1.00infobox
Negative binomial distributionFisher informationr p 2 ( 1 − p ) {\displaystyle {\frac {r}{p^{2}(1-p)}}}1.00infobox
Negative binomial distributionMeanr ( 1 − p ) p {\displaystyle {\frac {r(1-p)}{p}}}1.00infobox
Negative binomial distributionMethod of momentsr = E [ X ] 2 V [ X ] − E [ X ] {\displaystyle r={\frac {E[X]^{2}}{V[X]-E[X]}}} p = E [ X ] V [ X ] {\displaystyle p={\frac {E[X]}{V[X]}}}1.00infobox
Negative binomial distributionMGF( p 1 − ( 1 − p ) e t ) r for t < − log ⁡ ( 1 − p ) {\displaystyle {\biggl (}{\frac {p}{1-(1-p)e^{t}}}{\biggr )}^{\!r}{\text{ for }}t<-\log(1-p)}1.00infobox
Negative binomial distributionMode{ ⌊ ( r − 1 ) ( 1 − p ) p ⌋ if r > 1 0 if r ≤ 1 {\displaystyle {\begin{cases}\left\lfloor {\frac {(r-1)(1-p)}{p}}\right\rfloor &{\text{if }}r>1\\0&{\text{if }}r\leq 1\end{cases}}}1.00infobox
Negative binomial distributionNotationN B ( r , p ) {\displaystyle \mathrm {NB} (r,\,p)}1.00infobox
Negative binomial distributionParametersr > 0 — number of successes until the experiment is stopped (integer, but the definition can also be extended to reals) p ∈ [0,1] — success probability in each experiment (real)1.00infobox
Negative binomial distributionPGF( p 1 − ( 1 − p ) z ) r for | z | < 1 1 − p {\displaystyle {\biggl (}{\frac {p}{1-(1-p)z}}{\biggr )}^{\!r}{\text{ for }}|z|<{\frac {1}{1-p}}}1.00infobox
Negative binomial distributionPMFk ↦ ( k + r − 1 k ) ⋅ ( 1 − p ) k p r , {\displaystyle k\mapsto {k+r-1 \choose k}\cdot (1-p)^{k}p^{r},} involving a binomial coefficient1.00infobox
Negative binomial distributionSkewness2 − p ( 1 − p ) r {\displaystyle {\frac {2-p}{\sqrt {(1-p)r}}}}1.00infobox
Negative binomial distributionSupportk ∈ { 0, 1, 2, 3, … } — number of failures1.00infobox
Negative binomial distributionVariancer ( 1 − p ) p 2 {\displaystyle {\frac {r(1-p)}{p^{2}}}}1.00infobox
Negative binomial distributionis aspecial case of the discrete phase-type distribution.The negative binomial distribution is a special case of discrete compound Poisson distribution.Poisson distributionConsider…0.90text

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Negative binomial distribution bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Binomial, Negative and Distribution. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

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    • Distribution
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    • Displaystyle
    • Probability
    • Random
    • Successes
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    • Number
    • Mean
    • Pr
  • negative binomial distribution
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    • Number
    • Successes
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    • Mean
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  • probability theory
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    • Nb
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  • discrete probability distribution
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  • variance
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    • Nb
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    • Gamma
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  • negative binomial regression
    • Binomial
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    • Distribution
    • Poisson
    • Displaystyle
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    • Number
    • Random
    • Successes
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    • Function
    • Mean

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Negative binomial distribution, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Negative binomial distribution with Overview. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

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Negative binomial distributionOverview · splits 67 ⟂ 25
Negative binomial distributionOccurrence and applications · splits 67 ⟂ 25
Negative binomial distributionDefinitions · splits 76 ⟂ 16
Negative binomial distributionRelated distributions · splits 76 ⟂ 16
Negative binomial distributionProperties · splits 87 ⟂ 5
Negative binomial distributionHistory · splits 88 ⟂ 4

Map overview Semantic statistics

Negative binomial distribution

Nodes92
Edges91
Triples104
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.021739
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Negative binomial distribution to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History, Applications & Products, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Negative binomial distribution · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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