Re: [Rd] Problem with pbirthday (PR#7837)

2005-05-04 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Wed, 4 May 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems to me that the line in the function if (n > classes) return(1) is only relevant to the default case of coincident = 2. (Naturally, if there are more people than classes, then at least one class must contain 2 people). Yep, looks like a bug to me.

[Rd] Problem with pbirthday (PR#7837)

2005-05-04 Thread andy . lynch
Full_Name: Andy Lynch Version: 1.9.1 OS: Windows Submission from: (NULL) (131.111.86.211) As I understand it, pbirthday(n,c,k) gives the approximate probability that we see a class with k coicident people in it when n people are sorted into c classes. so the command > pbirthday(4,classes=3,c