January 2011
Beginner to intermediate
720 pages
23h 29m
English
Questions answered in this chapter:
What is the probability of winning at craps?
In five-card draw poker, what is the probability of getting three of a kind?
Going into the NCAA basketball Final Four, what is the probability of each team winning the tournament?
Gambling and following sporting events are popular pastimes. I think gambling and sports are exciting because you never know what’s going to happen. Monte Carlo simulation is a powerful tool that you can use to approximate gambling and sporting event probabilities. Essentially, you estimate probability by playing out a gambling or sporting event situation multiple times. If, for example, you have Microsoft Excel ...