Cuboidal dice and Gibbs distributions

DOI10.1007/S00184-013-0435-YzbMATH Open1304.62039arXiv1302.3925OpenAlexW2101972170MaRDI QIDQ464372FDOQ464372

Wolfgang Riemer, Dietrich Stoyan, Danail Obreschkow

Publication date: 17 October 2014

Published in: Metrika (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: What are the face-probabilities of a cuboidal die, i.e. a die with different side-lengths? This paper introduces a model for these probabilities based on a Gibbs distribution. Experimental data produced in this work and drawn from the literature support the Gibbs model. The experiments also reveal that the physical conditions, such as the quality of the surface onto which the dice are dropped, can affect the face-probabilities. In the Gibbs model, those variations are condensed in a single parameter, adjustable to the physical conditions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1302.3925

zbMATH Keywords

Boltzmann distributionGibbs distributionasymmetric dicecuboidal dicetossing

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical distribution theory (62E99)

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