Two birthday problems

Borek D. Puza; Terence J. O'Neill

doi:10.1080/03610920500476333

Two birthday problems

Borek D. Puza^*, Terence J. O'Neill

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This article focuses on two birthday problems which naturally follow from the most common birthday problems taught in statistics courses. The solutions to these new problems provide a good illustration of several combinatorial techniques.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	415-422
Number of pages	8
Journal	Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods
Volume	35
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/03610920500476333
Publication status	Published - 2006

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