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Also Known As	Bernoulli distribution

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normal approximation to the binomial distribution

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statistics: The binomial distribution

Equations written on blackboard

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Italian-born physicist Dr. Enrico Fermi draws a diagram at a blackboard with mathematical equations. circa 1950.

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