fly_simulation

fly_simulation, a Python code which simulates an experiment in which a fly lands on a plate of radius 1. By repeating the experiment many times, the average distance of the fly from the center is to be estimated.

Licensing:

The information on this web page is distributed under the MIT license.

Languages:

fly_simulation is available in a MATLAB version and an Octave version and a Python version.

Related Data and codes:

python_simulation, a Python 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.

Reference:

1. Paul Nahin,
   Dueling Idiots and Other Probability Puzzlers,
   Princeton, 2012,
   ISBN: 978-0691155005.

Source Code:

• fly_simulation.py, the source code.
• fly_simulation.sh, runs all the tests.
• fly_simulation.txt, the output file.

• fly_cdf.png, the observed and exact CDF functions.
• fly_pdf.png, a histogram of 1000 experiments, and a plot of the exact PDF of the distance.