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In probability theory, the multinomial distribution is a generalization of the binomial distribution. en.wikipedia.org

The probabilities describing the possible outcome of a single trial are modeled, as a function of explanatory (independent) variables, using a logistic function or multinomial distribution. en.wikipedia.org

Another alternative is to use maximum likelihood estimates to calculate a p-value from the exact binomial or multinomial distributions and fail to reject or reject based on the p-value. en.wikipedia.org

Note that this differs crucially from the above formula in having an extra term at the front that looks like the factor at the front of a multinomial distribution. en.wikipedia.org

Each column can therefore be regarded as an independent multinomial distribution. en.wikipedia.org

The families of binomial and multinomial distributions with fixed number of trials "n" but unknown probability parameter(s) are exponential families. en.wikipedia.org

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