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A Simple ‘Pig’ Game
Author(s) -
Johnson Roger W.
Publication year - 2008
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.1467-9639.2007.00307.x
Subject(s) - simple (philosophy) , coin flipping , computer science , artificial intelligence , statistics , mathematics , philosophy , epistemology
Summary Our pig game involves a series of tosses of a die with the possibility of a player's score improving with each additional toss. With each additional toss, however, there is also the chance of losing the entire score accumulated so far. Two different strategies for deciding how many tosses a player should attempt are developed and then compared in terms of expected score.