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Simulating from the geometric distribution

In this exercise you'll compare your replications with the output of rgeom().

This exercise is part of the course

Foundations of Probability in R

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Exercise instructions

  • Use the function rgeom() to simulate 100,000 draws from a geometric distributions with probability .2. Save this as geom_sample.
  • Compare replications and geom_sample with the compare_histograms() function.

Hands-on interactive exercise

Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

# Replications from the last exercise
replications <- replicate(100000, which(rbinom(100, 1, .2) == 1)[1])

# Generate 100,000 draws from the corresponding geometric distribution
geom_sample <- rgeom(___)

# Compare the two distributions with compare_histograms
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