Question

What is the difference between binomial and normal distribution?

Answer 1

Binomial distribution is discrete and normal distribution is continuous.

Explanation:

The main difference between normal distribution and binomial distribution is that while binomial distribution is discrete.

This means that in binomial distribution there are no data points between any two data points. This is very different from a normal distribution which has continuous data points.

In other words, there are a finite amount of events in a binomial distribution, but an infinite number in a normal distribution.

Still, if the sample size for binomial distribution is large enough, its shape will be quite similar to that of normal distribution.