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anm.coin: Animated demonstration of frequentist binomial convergence of probability using a coin flip.

Description

Creates an animated plot showing the results from coin flips, and the resulting convergence in P(Head) as the number of flips grows large.

Usage

anm.coin(flips = 1000, p.head = 0.5, interval = 0.01, show.coin = TRUE, ...)
anm.coin.tck()

Value

If show.coin=TRUE, returns two plots configured as a single graphical object. The first plot shows convergence in estimated P(Head), i.e., number of heads/number of trials, as the number of trials grows large. The second plot shows individual outcomes of coin flips. The second (smaller) plot is not returned if show.coin=TRUE is specified. Loading tcltk allows use of the function anm.coin.tck, which creates an interactive GUI to run anm.coin.

Arguments

flips

The number of desired coin flips.

p.head

User defined probability of a head; e.g., for a fair coin p.head = 0.5.

interval

The time between animation frames, in seconds.

show.coin

Logical if show.coin=TRUE shows a second plot with coin flip results (head or tail).

...

Additional arguments to plot.

Author

Ken Aho

See Also

Examples

Run this code
if (FALSE) anm.coin()

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