kerrich2000: First 2000 Tosses of Kerrich's Coin Tossing Experiment

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Description

John Kerrich, along with internee Eric Christensen, demonstrated the Law of Large Numbers by tossing a coin 10,000 times and recording the number of heads while interned in Denmark during World War II. In total, the tosses yielded 5,067 heads. Kerrich discussed these results in the text An experimental introduction to the theory of probability. This data provide the results of the first 2,000 tosses.

Usage

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Format

A data frame with 2000 rows and 2 columns.

name type description
toss "integer" Toss number.
heads "logical" Whether the toss was a head

References

https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/76663/john-kerrich-coin-flip-data

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Edmund_Kerrich#cite_note-6

https://web.archive.org/web/20140715063158/http://www.wits.ac.za/academic/science/stats/school/5717/history.html

Kerich, J. E. (1946) An Experimental Introduction to the Theory of Probability. Copenhagen:E. Munksgaard.


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