Take the binomial distribution for a spin
It turns out that the generative model you ran last exercise already has a name. It's called the binomial process or the binomial distribution. In R you can use the rbinom
function to simulate data from a binomial distribution. The rbinom
function takes three arguments:
n
The number of times you want to run the generative modelsize
The number of trials. (For example, the number of zombies you're giving the drug.)prob
The underlying proportion of success as a number between0.0
and1.0
.
This exercise is part of the course
Fundamentals of Bayesian Data Analysis in R
Hands-on interactive exercise
Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.
# Try out rbinom
rbinom(n = 1, size = ___, prob = ___)