Posts Tagged ‘ uniform distribution ’

How to choose your next holidays destination – Uniform distribution on a sphere

November 14, 2012
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How to choose your next holidays destination – Uniform distribution on a sphere

If you want to choose randomly your next holidays destination, you are likely to process in a way which is certainly biased. Especially if you choose randomly the latitude and the longitude. A bit like they do in this lovely advertising. (For those of ...

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Reaching escape velocity

June 22, 2010
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Reaching escape velocity

Sample once from the Uniform(0,1) distribution. Call the resulting value . Multiply this result by some constant . Repeat the process, this time sampling from Uniform(0, ). What happens when the multiplier is 2? How big does the multiplier have to be to force divergence. Try it and see: iters = 200 locations = rep(0,iters)

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