Exercise 3.26

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If X ∼ HGeom(w,b,n), then n − X ∼ HGeom(b,w,n).

If X counts the number of items sampled from the set of w items in a sample of size n, then n − X counts the number of items from the set of b items in the same sample.

To see this, notice that

P(n − X = k) = P(X = n − k) = ( w n−k)( b k) (w+b n)

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