A refinement of the binomial distribution using the quantum binomial theorem
Abstract
-analogs of special functions, including hypergeometric functions, play a central role in mathematics and have numerous applications in physics. In the theory of probability, -analogs of various probability distributions have been introduced over the years, including the binomial distribution. Here, I propose a new refinement of the binomial distribution by way of the quantum binomial theorem (also known as the the noncommutative -binomial theorem), where the is a formal variable in which information related to the sequence of successes and failures in the underlying binomial experiment is encoded in its exponent.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2009.12641,
title = {A refinement of the binomial distribution using the quantum binomial theorem},
author = {Andrew V. Sills},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.12641},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
16 pages. This version: Title changed. Abstract modified. Additional related results included. An error in a previous version was corrected