Journal of Applied Probability, Vol. 38, No. 1 (Mar., 2001), pp. 36-44 (9 pages) We examine how the binomial distribution B(n, p) arises as the distribution Sn = ∑i=1n Xi of an arbitrary sequence of ...

It may be a good idea to work on your own to calculate the mean, variance, and standard deviation for the distribution in Table 5.1 (p. 186). the answers are in Table 5.3 (p. 188). 5.2 Covariance of a ...