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In probability theory and statistics, the hypergeometric distribution is a discrete probability distribution that describes the probability of
successes (random draws for which the object drawn has a specified feature) in
draws, without replacement, from a finite population of size
that contains exactly
objects with that feature, wherein each draw is either a success or a failure. In contrast, the binomial distribution describes the probability of
successes in
draws with replacement.