/birthdayproblem

Functionality for handling the birthday problem with unequal probabilities

Primary LanguageRGNU General Public License v3.0GPL-3.0

The R package birthdayproblem

Functionality for handling the birthday problem with unequal probabilities

  • More information about the mathematical details of the computation and an example calculation can be found in the post Happy pbirthday class of 2016.

  • A small demo on how to use the package to calculate the name collision probability for birth cohorts over time can be found in the post US Babyname Collisions 1880-2014

Install package using:

devtools::install_github("hoehleatsu/birthdayproblem")