topic Re: Games of chance: Probability, distributions, or modeling in SAS Programming

Games of chance: Probability, distributions, or modeling

ugawoxoto61 — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 06:32:28 GMT

What game scenarios (e.g., dice, card games, roulette, or lotteries) do you use to demonstrate probability, distributions, or modeling in SAS? Has anyone tried creating game simulations to train machine learning models?

I think games of chance are a good metaphor for teaching statistics and data analysis.

Re: Games of chance: Probability, distributions, or modeling

Yough1967 — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 07:51:09 GMT

I’d go with dice, simple and super clear, you can show probabilities and distributions right away. Cards are fine too, but dice give that quick “wow effect” for teaching.

Re: Games of chance: Probability, distributions, or modeling

Ksharp — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 12:36:37 GMT

You gotta check @Rick_SAS blogs.

https://blogs.sas.com/content/iml/

Rick do a lot of data simulation for card, dice game.

Re: Games of chance: Probability, distributions, or modeling

Rick_SAS — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 13:23:54 GMT

For example, use any search engine and search for

rolling dice or tossing dice site:blogs.sas.com/content/iml

Here is the Google result:

https://www.google.com/search?q=rolling+dice+or+tossing+dice+site%3Ablogs.sas.com%2Fcontent%2Fiml

Re: Games of chance: Probability, distributions, or modeling

ugawoxoto61 — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 19:33:05 GMT

Thank you all for answers!