What would be the simulation for the following statement?: A fair coin is tossed until the first head occurs. Do this Z = 10 times and plot the relative frequencies of this occurring at the ith toss, for suitable values of i.

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A fair coin is tossed until the first head occurs. Do this Z = 10 times and plot the relative frequencies of this occurring at the ith toss, for suitable values of i.

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ragesh r menon
ragesh r menon on 1 Apr 2014
clear all
clc
close all
z=10;%number of times you want to repeat the experiment
s=zeros(0,z);
for j=1:z
coin=[];
i=1;
coin(i)=round(rand(1,1));
while(coin(i)==0)
i=i+1;
coin(i)=round(rand(1,1));
end
coin
s(j)=length(coin);
end
stem(s)

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