urn_simulation


urn_simulation, a Python code which simulates an experiment in which k colored marbles are drawn from an urn containing a total of n marbles. The quantity of interest is the number of marbles of each color.

Licensing:

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

Languages:

urn_simulation is available in a MATLAB version and a Python version.

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Reference:

  1. Nick Berry,
    Sampling and Confidence Levels,
    https://datagenetics.com/blog/june12014/index.html

Source Code:


Last revised on 23 January 2019.