Approximations to the birthday problem with unequal occurrence probabilities and their application to the surname problem in Japan

Shigeru Mase

Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, 1992, vol. 44, issue 3, 479-499

Keywords: Birthday problem; coincidence probability; non-uniformness; Bell polynomial; approximation; surname (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1992
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