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Exercise

Was 2015 anomalous?

1990 and 2015 featured the most no-hitters of any season of baseball (there were seven). Given that there are on average 251/115 no-hitters per season, what is the probability of having seven or more in a season?

Instructions

100 XP
  • Draw 10000 samples from a Poisson distribution with a mean of 251/115 and assign to n_nohitters.
  • Determine how many of your samples had a result greater than or equal to 7 and assign to n_large.
  • Compute the probability, p_large, of having 7 or more no-hitters by dividing n_large by the total number of samples (10000).
  • Hit submit to print the probability that you calculated.