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Tag Archives: Bathroom Solitaire
I Stand Corrected… Or Do I?
Just yesterday I received an email from Dr. Douglas Furton, a Physics Professor at Grand Valley State University. Dr. Furton had read my blog post about One-Handed Solitaire in which I used simulations to find the probability of winning such a game. Finding himself … Continue reading
Posted in Card Games, Extracurricular, Fun with Statistics, Statistics
Tagged Bathroom Solitaire, Games, one handed solitaire, Probability, R, Simulations, statistics, StatsFun
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Adventures in Bathroom Solitaire
What are the odds? I get asked this by my non-Stats friends from time to time. They usually don’t expect me to actually go to my thinking place (my thinking place deserves its own blog post) and calculate the odds. … Continue reading
Posted in Extracurricular, Statistics, Teaching
Tagged Bathroom Solitaire, Binomial Distribution, Card Games, Fun
