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Beer Tasting and the Problem of Coincidences
Author(s) -
Murrell Paul
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
teaching statistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.425
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 1467-9639
pISSN - 0141-982X
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9639.00065
Subject(s) - wine tasting , matching (statistics) , artificial intelligence , mathematics , mathematical economics , computer science , psychology , statistics , art , wine , visual arts
This article describes a matching problem. Given k unlabelled items and k labels, how hard is it to correctly match the labels to the items? The problem is an example of a very old one known as the problem of coincidences , which was originally motivated by a game played in the 18th century.