Anita Owens

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Solving the birthday problem in R with one line of code

If you want to quickly calculate the probability of 2 or more people who have the same birthdays in a group. This can be done easily with the pbirthday function from the Stats package.

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The probability of 2 people in a group of 25, having the same birthday is 0.5686997 or 57%. Astounding odds!