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Number-Needed Simulation

Source: R/numberNeededSim.R
numberNeededSim.Rd

You pick random numbers from 0 to 1, until their sum exceeds some target number. What's the expected value of the number of numbers you have to pick?

Usage

numberNeededSim(target = 1, reps = 1000,
                seed = NULL, table = TRUE)

Arguments

target

the target number

reps

number of simulations to perform

seed

The user may provide a seed-value for random-number generation.

table

Does the user want a table of the results?

Value

side effects

Author

Homer White homerhanumat@gmail.com

Examples

numberNeededSim(seed = 3030)
#> needed
#>     2     3     4     5     6     7     8 
#> 0.521 0.316 0.121 0.031 0.006 0.004 0.001 
#> 
#> The expected number needed is about 2.701.