Waiting for first coin flip
You'll start by simulating a series of coin flips, and "waiting" for the first heads.
This exercise is part of the course
Foundations of Probability in R
Exercise instructions
- Simulate 100 instances of flipping a single coin with a 20% chance of heads, and save it as the variable
flips
. (Thus,flips
should be a vector of length 100). - Use
which()
to find the first case where a coin resulted in heads.
Hands-on interactive exercise
Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.
# Simulate 100 instances of flipping a 20% coin
flips <- ___
# Use which to find the first case of 1 ("heads")
which(___)[1]