Pigeons,facebook and the birthday problem |
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| Authors: | Matthew Russell |
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| Institution: | University of Maine, Orono, Maine, USA. e‐mail: matthew.russell@umit.maine.edu |
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| Abstract: | 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. |
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| Keywords: | Teaching Probability Sampling Complement Combinatorics |
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