In probability theory and statistics, the Hypergeometric distribution is a discrete probability distribution. This distribution is used to calculate probabilities when sampling without replacement.

1 Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Université de Moncton, Moncton, Canada. 2 The Applied Multivariate Research Group, Université de Moncton, Moncton, Canada. 3 Department of Mathematics and ...

Hypergeometric probability example George Polya in his excellent book posted a problem: ‘A dangerous disease treated in the same area by two different methods, which we will distinguish as the “old ...

So, a friend of mine was bored one day and came up with this problem on his own (it related closely to some personal circumstances of his own). It intrigued me, but I have not been able to solve it.