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@Article{Munford:1977:NUA,
  author =       "A. G. Munford",
  title =        "A Note on the Uniformity Assumption in the {Birthday
                 Problem}",
  journal =      j-AMER-STAT,
  volume =       "31",
  number =       "3",
  pages =        "119--119",
  month =        aug,
  year =         "1977",
  CODEN =        "ASTAAJ",
  ISSN =         "0003-1305 (print), 1537-2731 (electronic)",
  ISSN-L =       "0003-1305",
  bibdate =      "Fri Jan 27 10:52:21 MST 2012",
  bibsource =    "http://www.jstor.org/journals/00031305.html;
                 http://www.jstor.org/stable/i326395;
                 http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/amstat1970.bib",
  URL =          "http://www.jstor.org/stable/2682958",
  abstract =     "If 23 people are selected at random from some large
                 population whose birthdays are uniformly distributed
                 throughout the year, then it is well-known that the
                 chances are better than even that at least two of them
                 will have the same birthday. In this note it is shown
                 that this is true for any distribution of birthdays.",
  acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
  fjournal =     "The American Statistician",
  journal-URL =  "http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/utas20",
  keywords =     "Birthday Paradox; Birthday problem; Symmetric
                 polynomials",
}

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