how to code a binomial distribution? in r

To generate a binomial distribution in R, the rbinom() function is used. The function takes three arguments: the number of trials n, the probability of success p, and the number of samples to generate size. The output of the function is a vector of integer values representing the number of successful outcomes in each sample.

Here's an example of generating a binomial distribution with 10 trials, a probability of success of 0.5, and generating 20 samples:

main.r
set.seed(123)  # set seed for reproducibility
n <- 10
p <- 0.5
size <- 20
samples <- rbinom(size, n, p)
samples
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This would output a vector of 20 integer values, each representing the number of successes in 10 trials with a probability of success of 0.5.

To visualize the distribution, you can use the hist() function to create a histogram of the generated samples:

main.r
hist(samples, breaks = seq(0, n+1), prob = TRUE, main = "Binomial Distribution")
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This would create a histogram of the binomial distribution with the number of successes on the x-axis and the probability density on the y-axis.