Lab 4 Program and Questions (Week of 9/27/99)

Questions

1) Lets make a deal. This exercise is an example of a computer simulation. Read the text and work out the theoretical answer with others in your section. Repeat the game "switching" 10 times and "staying" 10 times and keep track of your results. Without further ado, let's play Lets Make a Deal courtesy of R. Webster West and Scott Street both of the Department of Statistics at The University of South Carolina. What is your estimate of the probability of winning when you switch, what is your estimate of the probability of winning when you don't switch? Note: you need to make sure that your browser is java-enabled (in Netscape click Edit>Preferences... and go to the advanced options menu and click "enable java" and "enable java script").


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