Methods for studying coincidences.

From: Journal of the American Statistical Association | Date: December 1, 1989| Author: Diaconis, Persi; Mosteller, Frederick | Copyright information

Methods for Studying Coincidences

This article illustrates basic statistical techniques for studying coincidences. These include data-gathering methods (informal anecdotes, case studies, observational studies, and experiments) and methods of analysis (exploratory and confirmatory data analysis, special analytic techniques, and probabilistic modeling, both general and special purpose) . We develop a version of the birthday problem general enough to include dependence, inhomog...

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