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Dan Bikle
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 07/04/05 3:34pm
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
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