释义 |
Hypergeometric DistributionLet there be ways for a successful and ways for an unsuccessful trial out of a total of possibilities.Take samples and let equal 1 if selection is successful and 0 if it is not. Let be the total number ofsuccessful selections,
 | (1) |
The probability of successful selections is then
The th selection has an equal likelihood of being in any trial, so the fraction of acceptable selections is
 | (3) |
 | (4) |
The expectation value of is
The Variance is
 | (6) |
Since is a Bernoulli variable,
so
 | (8) |
For , the Covariance is
 | (9) |
The probability that both and are successful for is
But since and are random Bernoulli variables (each 0 or 1), their product isalso a Bernoulli variable. In order for to be 1, both and must be1,
Combining (11) with
 | (12) |
gives
There are a total of terms in a double summation over . However, for of these, so there are a totalof terms in the Covariance summation
 | (14) |
Combining equations (6), (8), (11), and (14) gives the Variance
so the final result is
 | (16) |
and, since
 | (17) |
and
 | (18) |
we have
The Skewness is
and the Kurtosis
 | (21) |
where
The Generating Function is
 | (23) |
where is the Hypergeometric Function.
If the hypergeometric distribution is written
 | (24) |
then
 | (25) |
References
Beyer, W. H. CRC Standard Mathematical Tables, 28th ed. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, pp. 532-533, 1987. Spiegel, M. R. Theory and Problems of Probability and Statistics. New York: McGraw-Hill, pp. 113-114, 1992. |