Binomial

Binomial may refer to:

In mathematics

• Binomial (polynomial), a polynomial with two terms
• Binomial coefficient, numbers appearing in the expansions of powers of binomials
• Binomial QMF, a perfect-reconstruction orthogonal wavelet decomposition
• Binomial theorem, a theorem about powers of binomials
• Binomial type, a property of sequences of polynomials

In probability and statistics

• Binomial distribution, a type of probability distribution
• Binomial process
• Binomial test, a test of significance

In computing science

• Binomial heap, a data structure

In linguistics

• Binomial pair, a sequence of two or more words or phrases in the same grammatical category, having some semantic relationship and joined by some syntactic device

In biology

• Binomial nomenclature, a Latin two-term name for a species, such as Sequoia sempervirens

In finance

• Binomial options pricing model, a numerical method for the valuation of options

In politics

• Binomial voting system, a voting system used in the parliamentary elections of Chile between 1989 and 2013

See also

• List of factorial and binomial topics