A statistical and probabilistic analysis of popular lottery tickets

Statistica Neerlandica

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 155-163

  Henze, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Deviations from symmetry; Lotto; Spacing statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031500663     PISSN: 00390402     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9574.00047     Document Type: Article

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