Answer to Question #15929 in Statistics and Probability for Toner

Question

Please indicate a real-life situation to which geometric distribution could be applied, and explain why.

Give a detailed example.

Answer 1

For example, suppose an ordinary die is thrown repeatedly until the first time a "1" appears. The probability distribution of the number of times it is thrown is supported on the infinite set { 1, 2, 3, ... } and is a geometric distribution with p = 1/6.