Code for Discrete Variables

Python notebooks for all the computational examples about Discrete Variables from Chapter 2 of the book. See here for the full code repository.

• Die rolls (real data). Empirical probability mass function
• Fair die rolls. Empirical probability mass function
• Durant’s free throw streaks. Nonparametric and parametric models, geometric distribution, maximum likelihood
• Maximum likelihood estimation for simulated free throws. Parametric model, geometric distribution, maximum likelihood
• Phone calls. Nonparametric and parametric models, Poisson distribution, maximum likelihood
• Distribution of the empirical-probability estimator. Empirical probability, binomial distribution