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Use of Negative Binomial distribution

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Hi
Can anyone explain the practical uses of Negative Binomial distribution Type I and II
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Viswanath
 
Consider a series of repeated, independent random experiments, such as throwing a dice or tossing a coin. Divide the outcomes into "success" and "failure", and assume we know the probability of each.

Question: how many failures will we get if we keep going till we get a certain number of successes?

That number is negative binomial distributed.

This also explains why there are different forms of it - you might want to count "total trials to get k successes" or "total failures to get k successes". If you're counting all the trials do you count the k-th trial as well? And so on.
 
Hi
Can anyone explain the practical uses of Negative Binomial distribution Type I and II
Thanks
Viswanath

In CT6 we ignore it's derivation and just use the fact that Type II is a discrete random variable that takes values 0, 1, 2, ... and so it can be used to model the number of claims to a general insurer.
 
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