Mathematics A-Level
binomial to Normal approximation
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By the Central Limit Theorem, the discrete binomial distribution B(n, p) converges to N(np, np(1 − p)) when n is large and p is not close to 0 or 1.
Topics that use binomial to Normal approximation
- Statistical distributions (A2 Unit 4: Applied Mathematics B) (WJEC A-Level)
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- distribution selection
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