Posts Tagged by statistics
| February 26, 2013 | Posted by Matthew J. Neagley |
Almost every gamer has seen Lou Zocchi’s classic pitch for GameScience dice, and if you haven’t yet and have the 20 minutes, click that link. It’s worth a watch. About 4 minutes into the first video, Zocchi references his picture of stacked dice, seen to the right. This picture has long been the major piece of proof that GameScience fans point to as proof of the superiority of their favorite dice. We can date that picture between 1981 and 1991 because the far left stack…
| April 5, 2012 | Posted by Matthew J. Neagley |
Martin’s recent article on inking his new GameScience dice naturally led to a spirited discussion about GameScience’s claims that their dice are the best dice available in terms of randomness, which quite naturally leads one to ask: “Is my favorite die fair? How can I tell?” One possibility is to perform a chi*-square goodness of fit test. This doesn’t include any difficult math, though it can be tedious without a spreadsheet program. The purpose of a goodness of fit test (often called simply a chi-square…
