Explore: Geometric Probabilities

studied in the 18th century, and the general topic became known as geometric probability. (Buffon's needle) What is the chance that a needle dropped randomly

In probability theory and statistics, the geometric distribution is either one of two discrete probability distributions: The probability distribution

is the probability that the needle will lie across a line between two strips? Buffon's needle was the earliest problem in geometric probability to be solved;

A geometric progression, also known as a geometric sequence, is a mathematical sequence of non-zero numbers where each term after the first is found by

unification of discrete and continuous probabilities, measure-theoretic treatment also allows us to work on probabilities outside R n {\displaystyle \mathbb

random variable Probability mass function Constant random variable Expected value Jensen's inequality Variance Standard deviation Geometric standard deviation

theoretical probability (in contrast to empirical probability, dealing with probabilities in the context of real experiments). The probability is a number

In mathematics, the geometric mean (also known as the mean proportional) is a mean or average which indicates a central tendency of a finite collection

understood as geometric objects since Klein's Erlangen programme. Geometric group theory studies group actions on objects that are regarded as geometric (significantly

in a series of independent Yes/No experiments with different success probabilities. Fisher's noncentral hypergeometric distribution Wallenius' noncentral