Type:
Volume:
30 (1)
Pages:
online
Year:
2008
Publisher:
Teaching Statistics
URL:
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1467-9639.2007.00296.x
Abstract:
This article studies various holiday distributions, the most interesting one being Easter. Gauss' Easter algorithm and Microsoft Excel are used to determine that the Easter distribution can be closely approximated by the convolution of two well-known uniform distributions.
The CAUSE Research Group is supported in part by a member initiative grant from the American Statistical Association’s Section on Statistics and Data Science Education