hypergeometric distribution
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hy·per·geo·met·ric distribution
ˌhī-pər-ˌjē-ə-ˈme-trik- 
: a probability function f(x) that gives the probability of obtaining exactly x elements of one kind and n - x elements of another if n elements are chosen at random without replacement from a finite population containing N elements of which M are of the first kind and N - M are of the second kind and that has the form {latex}f(x) = \frac{\binom{M}{x} \binom{N - M}{n - x}}{\binom{N}{n}}\text{where} \binom{M}{x} = \frac{M!}{x! (M - x)!}{/latex}
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People have already derived equations to estimate these probabilities, with names like the hypergeometric distribution, which has applications like election auditing and card counting.
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