Abstract
People often flip a to make a “random” selection between two options, for example, to choose which team goes first in a competition. This depends on the assumption that the probability of getting heads is .5, that is, that the coin is “fair.”
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Scheaffer, R.L., Watkins, A., Gnanadesikan, M., Witmer, J.A. (1996). Coins on Edge. In: Activity-Based Statistics. Textbooks in mathematical sciences. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3843-8_37
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