If you follow through from the independent theory, there's one of the basic relations in probability theory-- it's called the binomial distribution.

如果继续往下看,在概率论里有一个基本的概念,叫做二项分布

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In order to explain it-- I had to write down the binomial distribution to explain it properly.

要解释这一点,我要先在黑板上写一个二项分布,以便于解释清楚这个问题

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It uses the binomial distribution to calculate the probability of getting any specific number of accidents.

保险公司就可以用二项分布公式,来计算特定数目事故发生的概率

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To actually apply this it helps to go to something called the normal approximation to the binomial, because it's kind of difficult to compute this formula.

在实际应用这些公式的时候,需要运用二项分布的正态近似定理,因为二项分布公式的值很难计算

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Maybe they didn't write down the binomial distribution, but they explained the idea of insurance and it didn't sound right to the typical nineteenth century American woman.

也许他们并不会给客户写二项分布函数,但会向他们灌输保险的理念,但这看起来对19世纪的美国女性,并不奏效

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I didn't use the normal approximation there-- that's obvious--I used the binomial itself.

我显然并没有用到正态分布,我用了二项分布

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I think that may be the first-known statement of the binomial distribution.

我认为这就是最早的,关于二项分布的阐述

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So, that is the binomial distribution.

二项分布的介绍到此为止

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