coin_simulation

coin_simulation, an Octave code which looks at ways of simulating or visualizing the results of many tosses of a fair or biased coin.

Licensing:

The computer code and data files described and made available on this web page are distributed under the MIT license

Languages:

coin_simulation is available in a MATLAB version and an Octave version.

Related Data and Programs:

coin_simulation_test

octave_simulation, an Octave code which uses simulation to study card games, contests, and other processes which have a random element. Usually, the purpose is to try to predict the average behavior of the system over many trials.

Source Code:

• coin_average_plot.m, displays the running averages of N tosses of a coin.
• coin_barchart.m, displays a barchart of Heads versus tails after N tosses of a coin.
• coin_biased.m, simulates N tosses of a biased coin;
• coin_plot.m, displays the tosses in a sequence of N tosses of a coin.
• coin_sign_plot.m, displays the sign (-1, 0 or +1) of the running sum of N tosses of a fair coin.
• coin_streak.m, indicates streaks of the same value in N tosses of a coin.
• coin_streak_plot.m, displays the Head/Tail streaks in N tosses of a coin.
• coin_sum_plot.m, displays the running sums of N tosses of a coin.
• coin_uniform.m, simulates N tosses of a fair coin;
• coins_average_plot.m, displays the running averages of M sets of N tosses of a coin.
• coins_biased.m, simulates M sets of N tosses of a biased coin;
• coins_plot.m, displays the tosses in M sequences of N tosses of a coin.
• coins_sum_plot.m, displays the running sums in M sets of N tosses of a coin.
• coins_uniform.m, simulates M sets of N tosses of a fair coin;
• r8row_print.m, prints an R8ROW;
• r8row_print_some.m, prints some of an R8ROW;
• r8row_running_average.m, computes the running averages of an R8ROW;
• r8row_running_sum.m, computes the running averages of an R8ROW;
• r8row_uniform_ab.m, returns an R8ROW of scaled pseudorandom numbers;
• r8vec_print.m, prints an R8VEC;
• r8vec_running_average.m, computes the running averages of an R8VEC;
• r8vec_running_sign3.m, computes the running sign3 of an R8VEC;
• r8vec_running_sum.m, computes the running averages of an R8VEC;