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Meaning #1: a theoretical distribution of the number of successes in a finite set of independent trials with a constant probability of success
Synonym: binomial distribution

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Bernoulli

Probability mass function
Cumulative distribution function
Parameters	$p>0\,$ (real)
Support	$k=\{0,1\}\,$
Probability mass function (pmf)	$\begin{matrix} q & \mbox{for }k=0 \\p~~ & \mbox{for }k=1 \end{matrix}$
Cumulative distribution function (cdf)	$\begin{matrix} 0 & \mbox{for }k<0 \\q & \mbox{for }0\leq k<1\\1 & \mbox{for }k\geq 1 \end{matrix}$
Mean	$p\,$
Median	N/A
Mode	$\begin{matrix} 0 & \mbox{if } q > p\\ 0, 1 & \mbox{if } q=p\\ 1 & \mbox{if } q < p \end{matrix}$
Variance	$pq\,$
Skewness	$\frac{q-p}{\sqrt{pq}}$
Excess kurtosis	$\frac{6p^2-6p+1}{p(1-p)}$
Entropy	$-q\ln(q)-p\ln(p)\,$
Moment-generating function (mgf)	$q+pe^t\,$
Characteristic function	$q+pe^{it}\,$

In probability theory and statistics, the Bernoulli distribution, named after Swiss scientist Jakob Bernoulli, is a discrete probability distribution, which takes value 1 with success probability p and value 0 with failure probability q = 1 - p. So if X is a random variable with this distribution, we have:

$\Pr(X=1) = 1 - \Pr(X=0) = 1 - q = p.\!$

The probability mass function f of this distribution is

$f(k;p) = \left\{\begin{matrix} p & \mbox {if }k=1, \\ 1-p & \mbox {if }k=0, \\ 0 & \mbox {otherwise.}\end{matrix}\right.$

The expected value of a Bernoulli random variable X is $E\left(X\right)=p$ , and its variance is

$\textrm{var}\left(X\right)=p\left(1-p\right).\,$

The kurtosis goes to infinity for high and low values of p, but for p = 1 / 2 the Bernoulli distribution has a lower kurtosis than any other probability distribution, namely -2.

The Bernoulli distribution is a member of the exponential family.

Related distributions

If X₁,...,X_n are independent, identically distributed random variables, all Bernoulli distributed with success probability p, then $Y = \sum_{k=1}^n X_k \sim \mathrm{Binomial}(n,p)$ (binomial distribution).
The Categorical distribution is the generalization of the Bernoulli distribution for variables with any constant number of discrete values.
The Beta distribution is the conjugate prior of the Bernoulli distribution.

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Survival analysis	Survival function - Kaplan-Meier - Logrank test - Failure rate - Proportional hazards models
Probability distributions	Normal (bell curve) - Poisson - Bernoulli
Correlation	Confounding variable - Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient - Rank correlation (Spearman's rank correlation coefficient, Kendall tau rank correlation coefficient)
Regression analysis	Linear regression - Nonlinear regression - Logistic regression

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