The Bernoulli Distribution is a discrete distribution having two possible outcomes labeled by x = 0 and x = 1. The x = 1 is success, and x = 0 is failure. Success occurs with probability p, and failure occurs with probability q as q = 1 – p. So
$$P\lgroup x\rgroup=\begin{cases}1-p\:for & x = 0\\p\:for & x = 0\end{cases}$$
This can also be written as −
$$P\lgroup x\rgroup=p^{n}\lgroup1-p\rgroup^{1-n}$$
Example
#include <iostream> #include <random> using namespace std; int main(){ const int nrolls=10000; default_random_engine generator; bernoulli_distribution distribution(0.7); int count=0; // count number of trues for (int i=0; i<nrolls; ++i) if (distribution(generator)) count++; cout << "bernoulli_distribution (0.7) x 10000:" << endl; cout << "true: " << count << endl; cout << "false: " << nrolls-count << endl; }
Output
bernoulli_distribution (0.7) x 10000: true:7024 false: 2976