What is it about?
Classroom activity to explore the idea that sometimes probabilities are not intuitive.
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Why is it important?
Students love games and hands-on discovery and simulation facilitates engagement in these while illustrating results which may be non-intuitive as well as general theory such as the Law of Large Numbers.
Perspectives
Simulation is an integral and very important feature of modern statistics. There are several scenarios where its role is paramount. It is a very effective learning tool to help students acquire a conceptual, and not purely mechanical, understanding of a subject.
Professor Rui Martins
Universidade de Lisboa
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This page is a summary of: Learning the principles of simulation using the birthday problem, Teaching Statistics, May 2018, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/test.12164.
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