Re: (statistics)how to make date more like Laplacian distribution?

Clay S. Turner wrote:

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> Now for a simple example. Let's say you have a fair die. Each time you toss
> it, the probabily of each outcome is 1/6. So theory says we have a uniform
> distribution. Now toss the die 100 times and count how many times each value
> shows up. Now theory says on average each value shows up 1/6 of the time.
> However in any given sample (set of measurements), you can't expect this
> perfect a distribution every time. Why you ask? That is because each trial
> is independent of the prior ones. And in this situation I only tossed it 100
> times and 100 is not a multiple of six, so not all bins can have the same
> number of counts. Since the counts must be integers and 100/6 = 16.6666666,
> you can see the one problem.

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This can raise an unrealistic expectation. If we toss the die 102 times,
can we then ask that each face of an honest die to turn up 17 times?

Jerry
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