A generalization of the birthday problem.

A generalization of the birthday problem.

Probability Seminar
Jan 25, 2012, 03:10 PM - 04:00 PM | 332 Evans Hall | Happening As Scheduled
Sukhada Fadnavis, Stanford University
The birthday problem states that there is at least half a chance that some two out of twenty-three randomly chosen people will share the same birth date. The calculation for this problem assumes that all birth dates are equally likely. What if the distribution of birth dates is non-uniform and possibly even unknown? Further what if we focus on birthdays shared by two friends rather than any...