William L. Hosch
Encyclopædia Britannica Editor
William L. Hosch was an editor at Encyclopædia Britannica.
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Hypergeometric distribution, in statistics, distribution function in which selections are made from two groups without replacing members of the groups. The hypergeometric distribution differs from the binomial distribution in the lack of replacements. Thus, it often is employed in random sampling…
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