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It's a Holiday!!
Author(s) -
Ratliff Michael I.,
Mc Shane Janet M.
Publication year - 2008
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.1467-9639.2007.00296.x
Subject(s) - microsoft excel , distribution (mathematics) , gauss , convolution (computer science) , mathematics , computer science , statistics , mathematical analysis , artificial intelligence , physics , quantum mechanics , artificial neural network , operating system
Summary This article studies various holiday distributions, the most interesting one being Easter. Gauss’ Easter algorithm and Microsoft Excel are used to determine that the Easter distribution can be closely approximated by the convolution of two well‐known uniform distributions.