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BibTeX entry
@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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