Hypergeometric Distribution

Notation:

$X \sim Hypergeometric(N, K, n)$

Probability Mass Function:

$P(X=x)=\dfrac{{K \choose x} {N - K \choose n - x}}{ {N \choose n} }$

where:

Mean:

$\mathrm{E}[X]=n\dfrac{K}{N}$

Variance:

$\mathrm{Var}[X]=n\dfrac{K}{N}\dfrac{(N-K)}{N}\dfrac{N - n}{N - 1}$

References:

  1. Hypergeometric Distribution - Wikipedia
  2. Hypergeometric Distribution - Wolfram MathWorld