Expected Value vs. Trial Length

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This application is designed and developed by Saumitra Chakravarty under GNU General Public License. May be used or distributed for non-commercial educational purposes only.

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What is this thing?

If you look for a given sequence in a randomly arranged set of characters where repitition is allowed, like in a series of cointoss (H, T) or DNA bases (A, T, G, C), how many characters must you go through before you get your desired sequence? This application tries to determine the answer to the question statistically by means of repeated random trials.

This flash web application is cited in the following work(s) by Saumitra Chakravarty:

  1. Sombhoboto (BOOK) > Section 2.29