2022-06-16
WIP?
I've been thinking a bunch about how to tackle this problem. It seems like
my trip to the barber shop seems like a weird variant of the Birthday
Paradox: What is the probability, in a group of n
randomly chosen people, at least three will have the same name and
wedding day?
I've poked around stats exchange and found some general solutions to the birthday paradox, including an R implementation. Though, I'm not convinced that this is a good approach. How do you maintain assumptions and also account for names?
It seems like a better way would be to collect data on birthdays and wedding anniversaries, and calculate the distribution. A project for another day...