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Pigeons, facebook and the birthday problem
Author(s) -
Russell Matthew
Publication year - 2012
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.1467-9639.2012.00513.x
Subject(s) - sampling (signal processing) , probability and statistics , probability sampling , computer science , mathematics education , psychology , statistics , mathematics , sociology , demography , telecommunications , detector , population
The unexpectedness of the birthday problem has long been used by teachers of statistics in discussing basic probability calculation. An activity is described that engages students in understanding probability and sampling using the popular Facebook social networking site.