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1. Suppose you toss an unbiased coin (i.e. ) 50 times.
Consider , the total number of heads that you obtain.
- (a)
What's the average of
? Remember that this is also called the mean.
- (b)
What's the variance?
- (c)
Using the answers for (a) and (b), write down the corresponding
Gaussian distribution that approximately fits
.
- (d)
Calculate
and using this Gaussian approximation.
- (e)
What should the exact answer be?
Josh Deutsch
2009-03-05
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