Publications by Wesley

The Birthday Simulation

Nothing novel or unique about this problem.  This just extends the problem to measure the probability to three or more people sharing the same birthday using simulation approaches. For two people it’s fairly straight forward and with a group of about 22 people the probability that two people share the same birthday is about 0.5.  For groups ...

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Recent Articles

  I have uploaded a few papers I have written and presented at some national conferences over the past several years.  Currently, all the articles relate to election research. Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog: Statistical Research » R. R-bloggers.com offers daily e-mail updates ab...

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R Code for Election Posterior Distribution From a Random Sample

I wrote a summary article a couple of years ago discussing some probability aspects of the 2012 Presidential general election with a particular focus on exit polling. I’ve had a few people email me asking for the code I used in some if the examples. I have used this code since before the 2008 elections so I’ve made several changes over the ...

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