Aerin Kim
1 min readDec 13, 2019

Hi Ralf, your point is the exact reason why the binomial random variable is not suitable to model the number of clapping. Binomial r.v. can only take either 0 or 1, however, as you said, we will have 0 to n readers per hour.

Your second question: If we model the success probability by hour (0.1 people/hr) using the binomial andom variable, the model output will be like, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0.

(9 zeros and 1 one.
0.1 people per hour means — there will be only 1 person for the 10-hour period.)

Aerin Kim
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