A variation of the birthday problem – a reader responds
"A variation of the birthday problem" by Mario Cortina Borja is very much like a…
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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…
Is innovation faltering – or is GDP?
In a recent New York Times column, economist Paul Krugman raises the spectre of a…
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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…
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