Description

Overview:

This resource consists of a Java applet and expository text. The applet is a simulation of the matching experiment, which consists of a random permutation of the first n positive integers. The random variable of interest is the number of matches (the number of integers in the random permutation that are in their correct positions). The applet illustrates the distribution of the number of matches and the convergence to the Poisson distribution.

Subject:

Statistics and Probability

Level:

High School, Community College / Lower Division, College / Upper Division

Material Type:

Activity/Lab, Interactive, Simulation

Author:

Kyle Siegrist

Provider:

University of Alabama in Huntsville

Provider Set:

Virtual Laboratories in Probability and Statistics

Date Added:

02/16/2011