Continental Congress. Franklin returned to Philadelphia in 1775. There he served as a delegate to the Continental Congress, where he was instrumental in drafting the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation to form a new union.
In its simplest form (when r is an integer), the negative binomial distribution models the number of failures x before a specified number of successes is reached in a series of independent, identical trials. Its parameters are the probability of success in a single trial, p, and the number of successes, r. A special case of the negative binomial distribution, when r = 1, is the geometric distribution, which models the number of failures before the first success. More generally, r can take on non-integer values.
Since the probability of 2 or fewer sixes is equal to 0.3287, the probability of rolling more than 2 sixes = 1 - 0.3287 = 0.6713. The probability that a random variable X with binomial distribution B(n,p) is equal to the value k, where k = 0, 1,....,n, is given by, where.o find probabilities from a binomial distribution, one may either calculate them directly, use a binomial table, or use a computer. The number of sixes rolled by a single die in 20 rolls has a B(20,1/6) distribution.