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Probability and statistics questions: e.g. I am playing a dice game with a six-sided dice. I can roll the dice as many times as possible until I roll a 6 at which point I can't roll anymore. The amount of points I get is the sum of the numbers I roll. However, if I roll a 6 (and have to stop rolling), then my score becomes 0. What is the best strategy for the game?
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Quant Trader Intern

Interviewed at Jane Street

4.4
Jan 31, 2024

Probability and statistics questions: e.g. I am playing a dice game with a six-sided dice. I can roll the dice as many times as possible until I roll a 6 at which point I can't roll anymore. The amount of points I get is the sum of the numbers I roll. However, if I roll a 6 (and have to stop rolling), then my score becomes 0. What is the best strategy for the game?

Statistics (asking if a distribution is positively skewed, rank the mean, median, and mode), coding (is Python case-sensitive; what's the difference between loc and iloc, and another function that I can't remember but I have never heard of).
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Quant Researcher

Interviewed at Point72

4
Oct 3, 2024

Statistics (asking if a distribution is positively skewed, rank the mean, median, and mode), coding (is Python case-sensitive; what's the difference between loc and iloc, and another function that I can't remember but I have never heard of).

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