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Add description of noise in glossary and match.rst #727

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6 changes: 6 additions & 0 deletions docs/reference/glossary.rst
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Expand Up @@ -91,3 +91,9 @@ A tournament
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A **tournament** is a repetition of round robins so as to smooth out stochastic effects.

Noise
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A match or tournament can be played with **noise**: this is the probability that
indicates the chance of an action dictated by a strategy being swapped.
4 changes: 3 additions & 1 deletion docs/tutorials/getting_started/match.rst
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Expand Up @@ -16,7 +16,9 @@ For example, to create a 5 turn match between :code:`Cooperator` and
>>> match.play()
[('C', 'C'), ('C', 'D'), ('C', 'C'), ('C', 'D'), ('C', 'C')]

By default, a match will not be noisy, but you can introduce noise if you wish::
By default, a match will not be noisy, but you can introduce noise if you wish.
Noise is the probability with which any action dictated by a strategy will be
swapped::

>>> match = axl.Match(players=players, turns=5, noise=0.2)
>>> match.play() # doctest: +SKIP
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