Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "The bean machine, also known as the quincunx or Galton box, is a device invented by Sir Francis Galton to demonstrate the central limit theorem, in particular that the normal distribution is approximate to the binomial distribution. Among its applications, it afforded insight into regression to the mean or \"regression to mediocrity\".The machine consists of a vertical board with interleaved rows of pins. Balls are dropped from the top, and bounce left and right as they hit the pins. Eventually, they are collected into one-ball-wide bins at the bottom. The height of ball columns in the bins approximates a bell curve.Overlaying Pascal's triangle onto the pins shows the number of different paths that can be taken to get to each bin. A large-scale working model of this device can be seen at the Museum of Science, Boston in the Mathematica exhibit (currently closed)."@en }
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- Bean_machine abstract "The bean machine, also known as the quincunx or Galton box, is a device invented by Sir Francis Galton to demonstrate the central limit theorem, in particular that the normal distribution is approximate to the binomial distribution. Among its applications, it afforded insight into regression to the mean or \"regression to mediocrity\".The machine consists of a vertical board with interleaved rows of pins. Balls are dropped from the top, and bounce left and right as they hit the pins. Eventually, they are collected into one-ball-wide bins at the bottom. The height of ball columns in the bins approximates a bell curve.Overlaying Pascal's triangle onto the pins shows the number of different paths that can be taken to get to each bin. A large-scale working model of this device can be seen at the Museum of Science, Boston in the Mathematica exhibit (currently closed).".