{"title":"Coincidence—a statistical description","authors":"S. Selvin","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780198833444.003.0019","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The focus is on two classic descriptions of birthdays occurring on the same day. That is, the probability that two people selected at random from 23 have the same birthday and a specific probability a person’s birthday matches a specific day.","PeriodicalId":135906,"journal":{"name":"The Joy of Statistics","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2019-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The Joy of Statistics","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780198833444.003.0019","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The focus is on two classic descriptions of birthdays occurring on the same day. That is, the probability that two people selected at random from 23 have the same birthday and a specific probability a person’s birthday matches a specific day.