Chapter 4: Q. 52 (page 287)
Use the following information to answer the next five exercises: Suppose that a group of statistics students is divided into two groups: business majors and non-business majors. There are business majors in the group and seven non-business majors in the group. A random sample of nine students is taken. We are interested in the number of business majors in the sample.
Short Answer
The response variable has a Hypergeometric distribution having coefficients , whereby represents the size of the first group (of concern), denotes the size of the second group, and reflects the sample size. It's referred to as