Probability experimenting
Coin&Die
Coin flips
100 automatically. 3 times
%heads:______ %tails:_______ |%difference|:_____
%heads:______ %tails:_______ |%difference|:_____
%heads:______ %tails:_______ |%difference|:_____
10000 automatically. 3 times
%heads:______ %tails:_______ |%difference|:_____
%heads:______ %tails:_______ |%difference|:_____
%heads:______ %tails:_______ |%difference|:_____
100000 automatically. 3 times
%heads:______ %tails:_______ |%difference|:_____
%heads:______ %tails:_______ |%difference|:_____
%heads:______ %tails:_______ |%difference|:_____
As the number of flips increases, the |%difference| ___________.
The Law of Large Numbers: the more times a probability experiment (e.g. a coin flip) occurs,
the more the actual number of occurences approaches the expected theoretical number (e.g. half).
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Die toss
Each number has a 1/6 = .16̄ ≈ .166666666 chance of being top.
100
%1______ %2______ %3______ %4______ %5______ %6______
Sum=_______
Sum/n=______
1000
%1______ %2______ %3______ %4______ %5______ %6______
Sum=_______
Sum/n=______
10000 don't display
%1_______ %2_______ %3_______ %4_______ %5_______ %6_______
Sum=________
Sum/n=_______
100000 don't display
%1________ %2________ %3________ %4________ %5________ %6________
Sum=_________
Sum/n=________
The Law of Large Numbers: the more times a probability experiment (e.g. a die toss) occurs,
the more the actual number of occurences approaches the expected theoretical number (e.g. one-sixth).
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Sum of two dice.
+ 1 2 3 4 5 6
1 ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____
2 ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____
3 ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____
4 ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____
5 ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____
6 ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____
Frequency distribution table. include relative frequency
Sum Frequency Rel freq
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
Do the frequency and relative frequency columns look symmetric?:___
Which sum is the mode?:___
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Dice rolls
#dice: 2
#rolls: 100 Sum=_______ Sum/n=______
#rolls: 1000 Sum=_______ Sum/n=______
#rolls: 10000 Sum=_______ Sum/n=______
Relative frequencies getting closer and closer to the theoretical probabilities.
Do the frequency and relative frequency columns look symmetric?:___
Rotating these columns 90 degrees makes them look histogram-ish.
Which sum is the mode?:___
Copy and paste 1000 rolls into
freq dist, histogram, stats ***
n=______ mean=______ median=______ mode=_______
SD=_______
Sketch the histogram of X from 0 to 13, class width of 1:
This distribution sure looks like a ___________ distribution.