The Galton board, also known as the Galton box or quincunx or bean machine (or incorrectly Dalton board), is a device invented by Francis Galton to demonstrate the central limit theorem, in particular that with sufficient sample size the binomial distribution approximates a normal distribution. Galton designed it to illustrate his idea of regression to the mean, which he called "reversion to medi. DescriptionThe Galton board consists of a vertical board with interleaved rows of pegs. Beads are dropped from the top and, when the device is level, bounce either left or right as they hit the pegs. Eventually they are collected in. If a bead bounces to the right k times on its way down (and to the left on the remaining pegs) it ends up in the kth bin counting from the left. Denoting the number of rows of pegs in a Galton Board by n, the number of paths to th. designed his board as part of a presentation for the Royal Institution Discourses on February 27, 1874. His goal was to promote the use of ranking instead of measurement in statistics, so that qualities su.
