Continental Congress. Franklin returned to Philadelphia in 1775. There he served as a delegate to the Continental Congress, where he was instrumental in drafting the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation to form a new union.
In its simplest form (when r is an integer), the negative binomial distribution models the number of failures x before a specified number of successes is reached in a series of independent, identical trials. Its parameters are the probability of success in a single trial, p, and the number of successes, r. A special case of the negative binomial distribution, when r = 1, is the geometric distribution, which models the number of failures before the first success. More generally, r can take on non-integer values.
Discarding the negative sign, then,you look up (in Table E.14) the value Z = 1.00 and find the probability to be 0.3413. Hence, fromstep 3, the probability that the part can be assembled in between 69 and 81 seconds is 0.3413 +0.3413 = 0.6826. This result is displayed in Figure 6.9a. ZX =â=â=âÂµÏ69 756100.