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Statistics - Hypergeometric Distribution

Statistics – Hypergeometric Distribution

The hypergeometric distribution is used to calculate probabilities when sampling without replacement. For example, suppose you first randomly sample one card from a deck of 52. Then, without putting the card back in the deck you sample a second and then (again without replacing cards) a third. Given this sampling procedure, what is the probability that exactly two of the sampled cards will be…

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Whether a gene was over- or under-represented with a specific codon relative to the genome average was determined by calculating a Z-score based on a hypergeometric distribution with a cut-off of p

... is a sentence from this publication's materials & methods and I don't really get it. I'm not a statistician or mathematician, and I can't figure out what Z-scores have to do with a hypergeometric distribution. Can anyone shed some light?

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Distribution in an EDH Deck