Definition

Bernoulli trial

Also known as: binomial trial

A single random experiment with exactly two possible outcomes, usually called success and failure. A single coin flip is the textbook example: heads or tails, with a fixed probability for each. String many independent Bernoulli trials together and you build up richer ideas like the binomial distribution, which counts the successes across a whole batch of flips.


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