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A variation of the birthday problem – a reader responds

"A variation of the birthday problem" by Mario Cortina Borja is very much like a…

Emil M. FriedmanMarch 7, 2017

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Ask a statistician: A variation of the birthday problem

Alec Campbell of Bellevue College writes: I’ve read about the birthday problem, and how you…

Brian TarranNovember 28, 2016

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Is innovation faltering – or is GDP?

In a recent New York Times column, economist Paul Krugman raises the spectre of a…

Andrew WhitbyJune 23, 2015

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Ian McEwan sinks his Sweet Tooth into The Monty Hall Problem

During one of their Brighton rendezvouses, after a round of oysters and a second bottle…

Stephanie KovalchikJanuary 8, 2013