Advanced Search

Question: Maple can't seem to handle summations of binomial distributions accurately

Question:Maple can't seem to handle summations of binomial distributions accurately

bleese 10 Maple 2020
sum binomial summation user-error add
January 23 2024
2

Maple seems to give me very inaccurate results for this computation, I'm wondering if this is a known issue and if there's a way to fix it? Worksheet:

Exact commands I ran:
with(combinat):
B := (n, i, p) -> binomial(n, i)*(p^i)*(1-p)^(n-i)/i;

F:=(n,p)->sum(B(n,i,p),i=1..n);
F(2,1);

This outputs 0, when it should output 1/2. See image attached:

 

Is there a fix for this?
Please Wait...