Description

Overview:

Students explore the definition and interpretations of the probability of an event by investigating the long run proportion of times a sum of 8 is obtained when two balanced dice are rolled repeatedly. Making use of hand calculations, computer simulations, and descriptive techniques, students encounter the laws of large numbers in a familiar setting. By working through the exercises, students will gain a deeper understanding of the qualitative and quantitative relationships between theoretical probability and long run relative frequency. Particularly, students investigate the proximity of the relative frequency of an event to its probability and conclude, from data, that the dispersion of the relative frequency diminishes on the order .

Subject:

Statistics and Probability

Level:

Community College / Lower Division, College / Upper Division

Material Type:

Activity/Lab

Author:

Hartlaub, Bradley, Jones, Brian D.

Provider:

Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education

Provider Set:

Causeweb.org

Date Added:

02/16/2011