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Random Skew Vs Bias
I've read that there are formulas that mathematicians can use to calculate the parameters of randomness and bias of any event. I would imagine the lotteries audit their drawings and prizes payouts and investigate whenever those events are not within the expected parameters. When PowerBall had all those 5of5 wins last year it triggered an investigation that ended at a fortune cookie factory in New York.
Jul 13, 2006, 2:51 pm - RJOh - Mathematics Forum
Random Skew Vs Bias
Okay, lets try it this way.....When the lottery officials audit the picks...how would they determine that the picks are not as random as they should be....that there is a bias?
Jul 13, 2006, 12:33 pm - JKING - Mathematics Forum
Standard deviation test
Don't worry, as far as the lottery goes ...and as far as we players are concerned......... it's just a measure of a bunch of existing data by someone trying toaudit the lottery game for true results. Nothing to do with anything future. Unless they were to leave it with some sort of bias variances. LOL
Computer draws ....would be the biggest target for such a measure as far as we are concerned here.
I think the State Games should post the audit results of those computer draws on th
Jun 1, 2014, 1:33 pm - WIN D - Mathematics Forum
Monte Carlo Methods with Excel...
Here's a JAVA Applet that performs a Monte Carlo Simulation to estimate PI...
http://polymer.bu.edu/java/java/montepi/montepiapplet.html
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Gnumeric promises to be compatible with Excel and exceed it for statistical analyses.
http://projects.gnome.org/gnumeric/
Includes support for Monte Carlo analysis
Welcome to Gnumeric!
The Gnumeric spreadsheet is part of the GNOME desktop environment: a project to create a free, user friendly des
Feb 12, 2011, 3:19 am - jimmy4164 - Mathematics Forum