The surprising predictability of long runs

DOI10.4169/MATH.MAG.85.2.141MaRDI QIDQ2911558zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Mark F. Schilling

Publication date 31 August 2012

Published in Mathematics Magazine (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.4169/math.mag.85.2.141

zbMATH Keywords

approximate lengthBernoulli trialsextreme value distributionGumbel distributionlongest runspredictability of the length

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial probability (60C05) Central limit and other weak theorems (60F05) Probability theory (educational aspects) (97K50)

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