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.
When an exponent is zero, as in 6 0, the expression is always equal to 1. a 0 = 1. 6 0 = 1. 14,356 0 = 1. 2. a-m = 1 / a m. When an exponent is a negative number, the result is always a fraction. Fractions consist of a numerator over a denominator. In this instance, the numerator is always 1. To find the denominator, pretend that the negative exponent is positive, and raise the number to that power, like this: