KnowraGeometric distributionLinked fromLinked fromThe 15 pages that link to Geometric distribution, each with the reason it gives.All 15Broader topic 2Related 6Compared with 7Geometric progressionRelated: Its probabilities across trial counts are successive powers of the failure probability.Bernoulli trialRelated: It uses repeated Bernoulli trials to model waiting until success.Coupon collector's problemRelated: Each stage waits for a draw from one of the still-missing types.St. Petersburg paradoxRelated: It models how many coin tosses occur before the lottery pays.Law of total expectationRelated: Conditioning on the first trial gives a compact recursive expectation calculation.Infinite monkey theoremRelated: For non-overlapping blocks, the waiting time for a target has this distribution.