On Wed, 24 Mar 2021 18:45:01 -0700
<Name suppressed to protect the innocent> wrote:
"X = {X_1, X_2, ..., X_N} where each X_i
is an integer between 0 and n (n known a priori)"
That is a multinomial, not a binomial distribution. A binomial
distribution can have only two values, success or failure.
What have I misunderstood?
And then, following up:
Oh, I think I get what you mean -- you are drawing repeated samples from a binomial with n trials and you are counting the number of successes for each.
Yes. Exactly. Sorry if my post was unclear. cheers, Rolf Turner
Honorary Research Fellow Department of Statistics University of Auckland Phone: +64-9-373-7599 ext. 88276