Discrete Distribution Laws

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This page performs calculations based on counting laws, without requiring a dataset. We choose the law Then you enter its settings: number of trialsnumber of successesnumber of eventsnumber of defective items in the sample as appropriate.

Coming soon: averagefashionminimummaximum, the cumulative probability distribution, and the’confidence interval for the population mean to the confidence level chosen.

💡 It is this confidence interval that answers the practical question: I found 2 defective items out of 50—what can I say about the entire lot?

The answer is a range—often much wider than one might imagine—and this is an excellent argument for justifying a sample size.