SIMULATE ANYTHING: Secretary Problem Variant
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Secretary Problem Variant

DESCRIPTION

You are trying to hire the best (actually top-10%) person among N candidates. . You want to examine k of them and pick the best. You are successful if you got to the top 10% (90th percentile by skill) candidate. How many candidates do you need to interview to achieve this? Again, said another way, how many candidates do you need to interview and choose the best among them so that you have a 90% chance of finding the 90th percentile candidate.

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sample(outcomes, probabilities)

Sample an outcome from the outcomes array based on the corresponding probabilities in the probabilities array.

radiobutton(name, options)

Creates a radio button parameter with name and have each option in the options array selectable. Returns the selected option.

textbox(name, default_value)

Create a textbox parameter with name and a required default value. Returns the value of the textbox.

scatter_graph(data, xlabel, ylabel)

Create a graph based on a data array and plot (data.xlabel, data.ylabel) on it. Can also pass xmin=null, xmax=null, ymin=null, ymax=null as added arguments.

stop_simulation()

Calling this function, stops the simulation.

average(values)

Returns the average of the values in the array. It can be handy to store the values of metrics from each simulation run and average it across all runs to obtain an estimate of the metric.

error_average(values)

Returns the estimated error (1.96 x standard error) of the average of the values at 95% confidence. In simple terms, you can assume that the estimate average(values) has error bounds +/- error_average(values). It can be handy to store the values of metrics from each simulation run and estimate both the average and the error of the average across all runs.

stdev(values)

Returns the standard deviation of the values in the passed in array.

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