Tutorial: Hypergeometric distribution

The hypergeometric distribution gives the probability of drawing a number of a type of elements from a dichotomous distribution, when we extract the elements at the same time or without devolution. For example, we use the hypergeometric distribution to calculate the probability of drawing 10 white balls when we extract 20 balls from an urn with 40 white and 60 black balls.

You can find here (PDF slides) some lecture notes about that issue, as part of the course "Statistics for Business" given by Professor Josemari Sarasola in the Faculty of Business and Economics of the University of the Basque Country in Donostia.

You can also find all the course material here.

See, also

• Tutorial: Fisher's exact test, a statistical test based on the hypergeometric distribution.
• Gardenki: Banaketa hipergeometrikoa, the same notes in Basque.