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probability_per_trial

Geometric distribution parameter

## Specification

Alias: prob_per_trial

Argument(s): REALLIST

## Description

The geometric distribution represents the number of successful trials that occur before a failure is observed.

The density function for the geometric distribution is given by:

where `p` is the probability of failure per trial and `x` is the number of successful trials.