Resources Virtual Galton board: Bean Machine This applet allows users to drag sliders to change the number of bins (n) on a Galton board with probability of success p = 0.5. The applet animates the ...

In this paper a new normal approximation to a sum of hypergeometric terms is derived, which is a direct generalization of Feller's normal approximation to the binomial distribution [2]. For intervals ...

Another common example of a binomial distribution is estimating the chances of success for a free-throw shooter in basketball, where 1 = a basket made and 0 = a miss.