Parts of the Sampler

Parts of the Sampler

The figure below shows a sampler on the left. The device in the sampler (a mixer) has been filled with two elements, an H and a T, and designed to model the situation of flipping a coin three times (Draw 3). Clicking the RUN button automatically created the results table on the right. It shows the results of running the sampler five times (Repeat 5). The attribute Join combines the three individual results together into one attribute.

Basic components of the sampler include:

Devices: Types of objects you can fill with different elements to sample from. There are six different types of devices: mixer, stacks, spinner, distribution bar graph, distribution curve, and counter.

Device Elements: The elements in a device that are sampled. In a mixer, the elements are circles. In a spinner, elements are slices.

Outcome: The results of one draw from a sampler device.

Draw Number: The number of draws that make up one outcome.

Repeat Number: The number of outcomes generated with each run of the sampler.