The truth about binomial distribution

In short, CC is right, the others and the references to “multinomial” in the papers are wrong.

A Head/Tail distribution is a “Bernoulli distribution”.
A “Binomial distribution” counts the occurrences (e.g. of Head) of successive Bernoulli outcomes.

Thus a multinomial is like a binomial, counting outcomes, but with more possible outcomes.
The base generalization of Head/Tail is a “Categorical distribution”.

Rémi

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categorical_distribution
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernoulli_distribution

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multinomial_distribution
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binomial_distribution

Time change

Hello,

Exceptionnally, the reading group of Monday 28 June will take place at 10am instead of 11am.

Regards,

Alex

Reminder

Hello,

Here is a small reminder that on Monday, we will continue discussing the same paper than during the previous reading group:
http://www.vision.ee.ethz.ch/~calvin/Publications/kuettel-cvpr10.pdf

Thanks,

Alex

Paper for next monday

We propose this paper for Monday:
http://www.vision.ee.ethz.ch/~calvin/Publications/kuettel-cvpr10.pdf

I will try to present it.
Rémi