Gambling lotto numbers: Testing for substitutability or complementarity using semi-weekly turnover data

Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 527-544

  Purfield, Catriona ^a   Waldron, Patrick ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

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EID: 0012802161     PISSN: 03059049     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-0084.00142     Document Type: Article

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