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Hijacking Planes to Cuba: An Up-Dated Version of the Birthday Problem |
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| Authors: | Ned Glick |
| Affiliation: | University of Chicago , USA |
| Abstract: | Modern desk calculators compute distribution functions for many of the standard tabled distributions. Two such machines and some of their capabilities are discussed. Generally more is available from the calculators than is found in voluminous tables. One of the biggest advantages of the machines over tables arises from their capacity to compute probabilities for the two parameter F distribution, a set of values that is cumbersome to tabulate. |
| Keywords: | Calculation of probabilities Desk calculators Standard probability distributions Tables of standard distributions Problems expressible in terms of standard distributions |