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Probability with Roulette
Author(s) -
Marshall Jennings B.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
teaching statistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.425
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 1467-9639
pISSN - 0141-982X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9639.2007.00274.x
Subject(s) - roulette , computer science , computation , statistics , econometrics , mathematics , algorithm , geometry
Summary This article describes how roulette can be used to teach basic concepts of probability. Various bets are used to illustrate the computation of expected value. A betting system shows variations in patterns that often appear in random events.