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SOCR EduMaterials Activities BirthdayExperiment - Explanation of General Problem and Simulation

A general discussion of birthday type problems is given and there is an associated applet. In the applet, the number of days in the year can be set from 1 to 400 (default 365). The number of people in the room can be set from 1 to 100 (default 20). The probability distribution for the probability of finding at least one match for the given number of people is given and a simulation can be run. Alternatively, the number of distinct values in the sample can be considered as the random variable of interest.
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http://wiki.stat.ucla.edu/socr/index.php/SOCR_EduMaterials_Activities_BirthdayExperiment
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SOCR Project
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Carolyn Cuff
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SOCR Publishing
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