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http://dx.doi.org/10.5351/KJAS.2020.33.5.579

The number of games of Rock-Paper Scissors according to game rules  

Cho, Daehyeon (Department of Statistics/Institute of Statistical Information, Inje University)
Publication Information
The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics / v.33, no.5, 2020 , pp. 579-590 More about this Journal
Abstract
We would use a coin or a game of Rock-Paper Scissors before the a main game to determine which team will begin first. We can use the game of Rock-Paper Scissors to choose one of two or one of many. There can be many rules in a game of Rock-Paper Scissors between two teams and two teams may consist of a different number of players. In this paper, we find the means and variances of the total number of games till the winning team is decided according to different game rules.
Keywords
Rock-Paper Scissors; mean; number of cases; variance;
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