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Thursday, March 17, 2011

I married a statistician

Today Nate came home from school and told me that the statistics students each set up a bracket for March Madness.  Nate isn't terribly interested in basketball so he's not too familiar with the teams.

His plan to fill out a bracket:

1. Ask a friend questions about the likelihood certain teams would win.
2. Write a program on the computer that simulates flipping a coin.
3.  Weight the coin based on the information he received from his friend.
4. Use the results from his program to fill out his bracket.

3 comments:

  1. That's so much more scientific than picking the cities you like better with a little weight from the rankings:) We'll see who does better. . .

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  2. Jeff and I just choose the teams with good colors.

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  3. Papa said he just chose the ones that President O'Bama did not pick! I think Nate's way is probably just as valid as any other. Maybe more so. Let us know how his picks turn out.

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