[CoLoCo] dice rolls in C

[Jim Hutchinson]

On Feb 10, 2008 9:46 AM, Richard Guenther <richskyline at gmail.com> wrote:
> You're right Jim.  I think probability is one of the most misunderstood
> topics in math--which means we can never have too many science fair projects
> reminding us that "hunches" and "streaks" are easily explained by the law of
> large numbers:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_large_numbers

Thanks for the link. Looks useful. I taught 5th and 6th before. They
really don't get probability. We did a flipping 2 coins project and it
was funny (and frustrating) to explain that all flips counted. They
would try and exclude certain ones so that events match their
expectations.

What I'd really like to figure it is what stats to use to compare 1000
real dice rolls to 1000 computer dice rolls and see if the differences
are statistically insignificant. Thing is, despite several graduate
courses in statistics I don't know what test to use and I don't know
how to use any of the various stats programs.

It's my love - hate relationship with math.

-jim


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