Re: How to simulate random samples from crooked coin toss?
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- Subject: [mg58540] Re: [mg58511] How to simulate random samples from crooked coin toss?
- From: "Matthias Bode" <lvsaba at hotmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 03:11:24 -0400 (EDT)
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Hello Dan:
Does
TableForm[Table[
{i, If[Random[] > 0.6, H,
T]}, {i, 100}]]
get you started?
Best regards,
MATTHIAS BODE
COCHABAMBA/BOLIVIA
----- Original Message -----
From: "DAN BIKLE" <dbikle at gmail.com>
To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
Subject: [mg58540] [mg58511] How to simulate random samples from crooked coin toss?
> Math People,
>
> I'm new to Mathematica so please bear with me.
>
> I have a simple problem I want to solve and I'm looking
> for some ideas to get started on it.
>
> I want to simulate 100 tosses of a crooked coin where
> probability of Heads is 0.6 and Tails is 0.4.
>
> After I figure the coin out, I want to move on to crooked
> dice and crooked card decks.
>
> So, really what I'm looking for has more to do with developing
> a method to simulate the collection of random samples.
>
> I looked around in Help and found a promising sentence:
>
> "Random[distribution] gives a random number with the specified
> statistical distribution."
>
> Then I found a page here which has some clues:
> http://mathworld.wolfram.com/DiscreteDistribution.html
>
> Unfortunately, I'm weak with math notation so the above
> page makes little sense to me.
>
> So, let me put it to you as simply as I can:
>
> I want to define a function that could be called like this:
>
> numberOfHeads = coinTosser[infoAboutCoin, numberOfTosses, head]
> numberOfTails = coinTosser[infoAboutCoin, numberOfTosses, tail]
>
> Once I figure out how to write the above function,
> I could template off of it to build something like this:
>
> numberOfOnes = diceRoller[infoAboutThisDie, numberOfRolls, aOne]
>
> Do any of you have thoughts on how to approach the
> writing of the above functions?
>
> -Dan
> --
> dbikle at gmail.com
>
>
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- How to simulate random samples from crooked coin toss?