December 23, 2014

What’s the chance of that?

The best law-of-large-numbers scene in modern cinema.

“A spectacular vindication of the principle that each individual coin, spun individually, is as likely to come down heads as tails, and therefore should cause no surprise each individual time it does”

 

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Thomas Lumley (@tslumley) is Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Auckland. His research interests include semiparametric models, survey sampling, statistical computing, foundations of statistics, and whatever methodological problems his medical collaborators come up with. He also blogs at Biased and Inefficient See all posts by Thomas Lumley »