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Murphy's Law of Maps
Author(s) -
Matthews Robert A J
Publication year - 1997
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/j.1467-9639.1997.tb00323.x
Subject(s) - mythology , mathematics , mathematical economics , statistics , calculus (dental) , econometrics , geography , philosophy , medicine , theology , dentistry
Summary Using probability theory, I show that the “urban myth” that map locations tend to lie on the edges or down the central crease is based in fact.