MONT 107N -- Understanding Randomness
Probability Histograms
February 5, 2010
Consider the box and make draws with replacement.
What do the probability histograms look like as increases?
Here is some Maple code that computes the binomial probabilities
and generates the corresponding probability histograms:
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With draws:
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With draws:
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With draws:
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With draws (at this point, notice that
the probability histogram is starting to look more "normal"
in shape(!)
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Finally, with draws, and an approximating
normal curve in red:
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