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Dakota Reference Manual
Version 6.16
Explore and Predict with Confidence
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A negative binomial distribution parameter
Alias: none
Argument(s): INTEGERLIST
The negative binomial distribution is typically used to predict the number of failures observed when repeating a test until a total of n successes have occurred, where each test has a probability p of success.
The density function for the negative binomial distribution is given by:
where
is the probability of success per trial
is the number of successful trials
is the number of failures