Tag Archives: statistics

Simulate a doubling betting strategy in C#

Posted on February 5, 2021 by RodStephens

Casinos love customers who have a betting strategy because those customers always end up losing. As long as the game’s events are independent of each other (for example, one roll of the dice does not depend on the previous rolls), … Continue reading →

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New Book: The Modern C# Challenge

Posted on October 29, 2018 by RodStephens

My latest book, The Modern C# Challenge, is now available. It’s a collection of 100 programming challenges that let you test your ability in a wide variety of programming topics, many of which are not usually covered in traditional programming … Continue reading →

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Find two sets where the median of one is the mean of the other and vice versa in C#

Posted on July 23, 2018 by RodStephens

For an upcoming book, I wanted to find sets where the mean (average) of one is the median (middle value) of the other and vice versa. I wanted to avoid trivial examples such as {1, 1, 1} and where the … Continue reading →

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Make a dice-rolling simulation in C#

Posted on September 21, 2017 by Rod Stephens

This example performs a simulation of rolling two six-sided dice. It’s related to my book Interview Puzzles Dissected, which includes several examples that involve rolling dice. When you enter a number of trials and click Roll, the program uses the … Continue reading →

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Plot data with standard deviation ranges in C#

Posted on September 9, 2015 by RodStephens

The examples Draw a normal distribution curve in C# and Draw a scaled normal distribution in C# show one approach for visualizing how data is distributed. This example shows a method that lets you visualize where a particular data value … Continue reading →

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Draw a scaled normal distribution in C#

Posted on September 8, 2015 by RodStephens

The example Draw a normal distribution curve in C# shows how to draw a normal distribution. Unfortunately for some means and standard deviations, the result may not be very useful. For example, Figure 1 shows a normal distribution where the … Continue reading →

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Draw a normal distribution curve in C#

Posted on September 4, 2015 by RodStephens

A normal distribution is a probability distribution that occurs arise when you analyze seemingly “random” occurrences. You can define a normal distribution in terms of its mean and standard deviation. Mean (μ) This is the basically the average of the … Continue reading →

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