Introduction to Statistics: Difference between revisions
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It's usually possible to represent the outcome of experiments in terms of a representation involving integers or real numbers. For instance, in the case of flipping a coin, it becomes a little cumbersome to record the outcomes of multiple experiments. Let's say we flip a coin four times, and repeat this experiment twice. We might have gotten the following outcomes from the two experiments.<br> | It's usually possible to represent the outcome of experiments in terms of a representation involving integers or real numbers. For instance, in the case of flipping a coin, it becomes a little cumbersome to record the outcomes of multiple experiments. Let's say we flip a coin four times, and repeat this experiment twice. We might have gotten the following outcomes from the two experiments.<br> | ||
<math>\{HHTH\}</math> and <math>\{TTHH\}</math><br> | <math>\{HHTH\}</math> and <math>\{TTHH\}</math><br> | ||
But if we're only really interested in the number of times that the coin turns up heads in four flips, we can assign an integer value of 0 to Tails and 1 to Heads. Adding the the values together for each experiment gives us what we were after in the first place. | |||