There are also theoretical or "expected" distributions! For one toss of
two dice we can enumerate all the possible tosses and their sums report
how many times each sum occurs. The relative frequencies are supposed
to be well known to dice players!
On 12/7/2011 4:47 AM, Kip Murray wrote:
> We are getting into descriptive statistics. Instead of a simple
> frequency distribution you can group the data into classes and report
> the number in each class. Google "stem and leaf plot" and "five number
> summary". This is going beyond Linda's prescription, and we should hear
> what she suggests.
>
> On 12/7/2011 3:20 AM, Ric Sherlock wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 10:16 PM, Ric Sherlock<tikk...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Linda
>>> Alvord<lindaalv...@verizon.net> wrote:
>>>> For number 2 each time you toss the dice, you must get a total for
>>>> all the
>>>> 500 dice. Next you toss the full bucket of dice 199 more times. Make a
>>>> frequency distribution of the 200 results.
>>>
>>> If I implement this description of number 2 I get almost 200 different
>>> sums of the 200 throws of 500 dice, i.e. almost all of the sums have a
>>> frequency of 1 (the odd one has 2 or 3).
>>>
>>> platonic=: 4 6 8 12 20
>>> sumtoss=: [: +/ ?@$
>>> fd=: [: /:~ ({. , #)/.~
>>> fd 500 200 sumtoss platonic
>>
>> Sorry sumtoss should be:
>> sumtoss=: [: +/ 1 + ?@$
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