NonRANDom Selection of Statisticians?
Published In: Chance, v. 10, no. 3, 1997, p. 14-15
Posted on RAND.org on January 01, 1997
Four consecutive birthdays in a group of ten statisticians: coincidence or probabilistic rarity? In this piece the author discusses a new variation on the "Classical Birthday Problem."
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