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eeuser
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Plot distribution for winning bets of flips for a fair coin
Posted:
Sep 16, 2013 4:25 AM
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Could someone please help me finish my MatLab script for the following specifications of this scenario:
Specs:
- 2 players flip a fair coin
- Bet sizes are equal
I'm trying to plot the distribution of the length of winning streaks for the game with numeric MatLab. Below is what I have so far:
% Arbitrary Scenario:
% Total of 10 coin tosses
% Player 1 (P1) bets on heads for each toss; Player 2 (P2) bets on tails
% for each toss
n = 10; % Coin is tossed 10 times
t=rand(1,n)<0.5;
x=sum(t); % Count the number of heads (Amt of P1 wins)
y=n-x; % Count the number of tails (Amt of P2 wins)
Now all I want to do is plot the distribution for x and y.
Did I approach my problem correctly or did I miss anything? How would you guys go about plotting this distribution of length of winning streaks?
Many thx in advance!
- T
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