i haven't touch statistics materials for many years so i need someone be so
kind to help me out with this simple problem:
Tossing a fair coin n times. Let A denote the maximum run length, i.e. the
largest number of consecutive heads we get among the n tosses.
Find E(A) for the case n=10.
The answer is apporximately 2.8
Could someone help me the way how to understand this question. I will write
a computer simulation program but as you can see i don't know how to get
E(x) generally.
Thank you very much!
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