SOCR EduMaterials Activities ExpCarTimeExperiment

Description

TBD.

Goal

To provide an interactive simulation demonstrating exponential processes, exonential decay and ... TBD.

• Draws the analogy between Gamma, Exponential and Poisson (discrete!)
• Provides means for (large) data generation/sampling
• Provides the infrastructure for model-fitting and assessment.

Experiment

Go to the SOCR Experiments and select the Exponential Car-Time Experiment from the drop-down list of experiments on the top left. The image below shows the initial view of this experiment:

Select the number of cars (k) and the rate of the exponential process (r). When pressing the play button, one trial will be executed that involves sampling k random exponential time variables (representing the between car times). The results will be displayed graphically in the two graph windows (timeline and histogram) for this process. Summary statistics and model vs. data distributions are shown in the distribution table below. The stop button ceases any activity and is helpful when the experimenter chooses a large number of cars (k is large). The reset button will clear and re-initialize the entire experiment, deleting all previous information and data collected.

As the number of cars (k) increases, the distribution of the between-car times will have exponential-decay shape. Note that as the number of cars (k) increases, the empirical histogram (graph) and moments (table) of the random exponential times begin to converge to their corresponding Exponential distribution counterparts.

Applications

TBD Note that the Number of Arrivals in a fixed time-period follows Poisson distribution.

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