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The Negative Binomial Distribution

Syntax

dnbinom(x, n, p)
pnbinom(x, n, p)
qnbinom(x, n, p)
rnbinom(x, n, p)

Description

These functions provide information about the negative binomial distribution with parameters n and p. dnbinom gives the density, pnbinom gives the distribution function qnbinom gives the quantile function and rnbinom generates random deviates.

The negative binomial distribution has density

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for x = 0, 1, 2, ...