HH versus HT Pattern Expectations in Sequences of Coin Flips
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This Demonstration considers a sequence of fair coin flips and computes the expected number of tosses until heads are immediately preceded by heads and similarly for the pattern. At first you might expect that those values must be the same, because the probability of getting a or after the first is the same. The theoretical values are and .
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Contributed by: Jan Fiala (March 2011)
(University of Virginia’s College at Wise)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA
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