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The 1970 US draft lottery revisited: a spatial analysis
Author(s) -
Mateu Jorge,
Montes Francisco,
Plaza Mario
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
journal of the royal statistical society: series c (applied statistics)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.205
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9876
pISSN - 0035-9254
DOI - 10.1046/j.0035-9254.2003.05293.x
Subject(s) - lottery , randomness , point process , context (archaeology) , computer science , spatial contextual awareness , square (algebra) , hull , point (geometry) , spatial ecology , operations research , mathematics , geography , statistics , artificial intelligence , engineering , geometry , archaeology , ecology , marine engineering , biology
Summary. We revise the result of the 1970 selective service draft lottery in the USA following an open question that was suggested by Fienberg in a paper published in Science in 1971. The result of the drawings can be viewed as a particular spatial pattern which can be analysed by using general spatial tools adapted to our context. Approaches for assessing the complete spatial randomness for this spatial process on a finite support are proposed. More specifically, these approaches involve the number of events in a square window and a k ( r )‐based function used to analyse stationary spatial point processes.