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An urn has n white and m black balls. Balls are randomly withdrawn, without replacement, u...

An urn has n white and m black balls. Balls are randomly withdrawn, without replacement, until a total of k,kn white balls have been withdrawn. The random variable X equal to the total number of balls that are withdrawn is said to be a negative hypergeometric random variable.

(a) Explain how such a random variable differs from a negative binomial random, variable.


(b) Find P{X =r}.

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