How does a multinomial distribution differ from a binomial distribution?
A) A binomial has only two possible categories and a multinomial can have more.
B) A binomial has a fixed number of n trials.A multinomial has a fixed number of nk trials,where k is the number of categories.
C) The probabilities in a binomial distribution are always p and 1 - p.The trials in a multinomial distribution are always p/k and (1 - p/k).
D) All of these choices are true.

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A binomial distribution deals with two possible outcomes (success and failure) in a fixed number of trials, while a multinomial distribution generalizes this to more than two categories.

How Does a Multinomial Distribution Differ from a Binomial Distribution