Rolling dice for normal samples: Python version

The Endeavour 2013-04-29

Summary:

A handful of dice can make a decent normal random number generator, good enough for classroom demonstrations. I wrote about this a while ago. My original post included Mathematica code for calculating how close to normal the distribution of the sum

Link:

http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2013/04/29/rolling-dice-for-normal-samples-python-version/

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Statistics and Visualization » The Endeavour

Tags:

python math probability and statistics scipy sympy

Authors:

John

Date tagged:

04/29/2013, 13:10

Date published:

04/29/2013, 09:17