Talk:Soldier Name Stats

Even one data set having no duplicates would be strong evidence of deduplication, but twenty?

For a batch of 100, the theoretical probability that no name is duplicated in a batch, where the names are purely chosen randomly, is the series product

Π k=1100..1199

k 1200

Numerically (putting this into a spreadsheet), this comes out to ~0.013154 . We have five significant digits even if the spreadsheet used typical C floats. [Lose two compared to base type because of the 199 multiplications and divisions done, but typical C floats have 7 significant digits.]

This does complicate testing whether the six name categories are being selected in a way compatible with a good random number generator. The deduplication means the Χ² test is not directly applicable.

--- Zaimoni 6:59 July 22, 2006 (CDT)

American, not British...

I hate to be contentious, but I'd venture to dispute the notion that there are two "British" name sets. Set one would produce quite unexceptional (and unexceptionable) British names, but the second? No. Set two looks to my British eyes distinctly American. Of the forenames, Barbara, Carl, Catherine, Donald, Ed, Evelyn, Kevin, Mark, Patricia, Samuel and Tom are not unusual British forenames (Carl less so than the others; Samuel would more often be just Sam, and Evelyn IMHO would belong to my parents' generation, not mine); nobody who isn't upper-class AND elderly would be likely to be named Austin or Clarence; Calvin, Dwight, Lester, Oscar, Sigourney, Spencer and Virgil simply scream "Alien!" "American!" at me.

--KayDekker 06:18, 30 April 2008 (PDT)

I'd have to agree with you there KayDekker. It would seem strange that there wouldn't be an American set of names as that is the largest funding country of all.--Zombie 14:37, 30 April 2008 (PDT)