I have started a new book called The Art of R Programming by Norman Matloff and I’m really digging it…. Read more
Category: Simulation
Evidence of the truth of the Central Limit Theorem
The Central Limit Theorem is really amazing if you think about it. It says that the sum of a large… Read more
Explaining and simulating an F distribution
I remember feeling very uncomfortable with the F distribution when I started learning statistics. It comes up when you’re learning… Read more
Stabilization simulation of relative frequency
One of my favorite simulations is seeing how the relative frequency of an event stabilizes around a theoretical probability as… Read more
Simulating outcomes of a simple experiment
One of the first things you learn in an introductory mathematical statistics class is how to assign a probability model… Read more
Explaining and simulating a chi-square distribution
Randomly select several values, say 10, from a standard Normal distribution. That’s a Normal distribution with a mean of 0… Read more