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Activity Number:
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384
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Type:
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Contributed
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Date/Time:
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Wednesday, August 9, 2006 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
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Sponsor:
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Section on Statistical Education
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| Abstract - #307428 |
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Title:
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How Low Can You Go?
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Author(s):
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Paul Stephenson*+ and Mary Richardson and John Gabrosek
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Companies:
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Grand Valley State University and Grand Valley State University and Grand Valley State University
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Address:
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Department of Statistics , Allendale, MI, 49401,
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Keywords:
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simulation ; sampling distributions ; order statistics ; statistics education ; sports ; gaming theory
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Abstract:
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GOLO is a simple and addicting dice game that replicates golf using nine twelve-sided dice. The basic rules of GOLO are to roll all nine dice and remove your lowest score(s). You may remove as many dice as you wish, but you must remove at least one die each roll. Place the remaining dice in the cup and roll again. Continue to roll until all nine dice are removed and add up the score for the nine dice (which represents the golfer's nine hole score). In this talk the authors will briefly introduce the game of GOLO and demonstrate how simulation can be utilized to replicate the playing of the game. A variety of game strategies will be proposed and the authors will examine the performance of each game strategy by investigating the distribution of the resulting scores. The authors will then discuss how GOLO can be used in both introductory and advanced undergraduate statistics courses.
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