Monday, March 08, 2004

Heads or Heads?

"In the theory of probability, fair coin flips are the fundamental particles of randomness.  Mix them, string them together, put them in a list, and you can generate any distribution you like.  It’s an added bonus that they work so nicely on the playground or when you and a stranger have simultaneously claimed the last parking spot at the Cineplex.

At least it seemed that way.  But the renowned statistician Peter Diaconis has locked the fair coin flip in the ivory tower of abstraction, forever."

In a post by Chris at Signal + Noise. Chris includes links to a NPR report on this and abstracts on Diaconis’ talk on this subject.

Via Greg Ransom at PrestoPundit.

Posted by John Venlet on 03/08 at 04:49 AM
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