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Posted in Books, pictures, Statistics, University life with tags Amsterdam, arXiv, biased coin, coin tossing, history of statistics, Ig Nobel Prize, Persi Diaconis, the Netherlands on September 16, 2024 by xi'an
exam question
Posted in Kids, Statistics, University life with tags Bernoulli, Bernoulli factory, biased coin, cross validated, final exam, log-normal distribution, Monte Carlo methods, pseudo-random generator, random simulation, Université Paris Dauphine on June 24, 2016 by xi'an
A question for my third year statistics exam that I borrowed from Cross Validated: no student even attempted to solve this question…!
And another one borrowed from the highly popular post on the random variable [almost] always smaller than its mean!
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