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@littmath August 24 Riddle
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##You have 10000 coins. 9999 of them are fair; one is rigged so that it always lands on heads. | |
##You choose a coin at random and flip it 10 times; it’s heads all ten times. | |
## what is likelihood that the coin is rigged? | |
ht_list <- rep(list(c("H", "T")), 9999) | |
ht_list[[10000]] <- c("H", "H") | |
coins <- tibble( | |
x=ht_list | |
) |> | |
mutate( | |
coin_id=row_number() | |
,coin_indicator=if_else(coin_id==10000,1,0) | |
) | |
flip_coin <- function(){ | |
coins |> | |
rowwise() |> | |
mutate( | |
ten_flips=list(sample(x,size=10,replace=TRUE)) | |
,ten_flips=list(str_flatten(ten_flips)) | |
) |> | |
unnest(ten_flips) |> | |
filter( | |
ten_flips=="HHHHHHHHHH" | |
) |> | |
summarise( | |
mean=mean(coin_indicator) | |
) | |
} | |
results_tbl <- tibble(results=replicate(1000,expr = flip_coin())) | |
mean_vec <- results_tbl |> unnest(results) |> pull(results) |> mean() | |
results_tbl |> unnest(results) |> | |
ggplot(aes(x=results))+ | |
geom_histogram()+ | |
geom_vline(xintercept = mean_vec,col="midnightblue",size=1)+ | |
scale_x_continuous(labels = scales::label_percent())+ | |
theme_classic() |
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