In a hypergeometric probability distribution of a population of N items, r refers to the number of successes and N − r refers to the number of failures.

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N refers to the number of items and r are the items that are successes. Therefore, by definition, N − r would be total − successes = failures.

In a Hypergeometric Probability Distribution of a Population of N