Question

A financial analyst is presented with information on the past records of 60 start-up companies and told that in fact only 3 of them have managed to become highly successful. He selected 3 companies from this group as the candidates for success. To analyze his ability to spot the companies that will eventually become highly successful, he will use what type of probability distribution?
a) binomial distribution.
b) Poisson distribution.
c) hypergeometric distribution.
d) none of the above

Answer 1

Answer:

c) hypergeometric distribution.

Explanation:

Hypergeometric distribution -

It is the distribution curve of the " k " success probability in " n " draws , without any replacement with the size of " N " , having " K "  , objects .

This distribution is used to calculate the statistical significance for " k " success out of " n " draws .

This required to detect the which sub - population are under or over represented in a sample .

Hence , the probability distribution given in the question is of , hypergeometric distribution .