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.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 26-28 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Journal | Teaching Statistics |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Mar 2013 |
Keywords
- Combinatorics
- Complement
- Probability
- Sampling
- Teaching