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Why should we expect this odd behavior of negative binomial distributions?
In independent Bernoulli trials with probability $p$ of success on each trial, let $X$ be the number of failures before the $n$th success. Then
$$
\Pr(X=x) = \binom{-n}{\phantom{+}x} (-q)^x p^n \text{ ...
