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Ask a statistician: A suspicious sequence?
Author(s) -
DunneWillows Michael
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
significance
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1740-9713
pISSN - 1740-9705
DOI - 10.1111/1740-9713.01483
Subject(s) - ask price , lottery , statistician , sequence (biology) , outcome (game theory) , computer science , operations research , artificial intelligence , history , internet privacy , data science , engineering , mathematical economics , mathematics , business , biology , statistics , finance , genetics
When a lottery draw produced a straight run of numbers and more than 20 winners, some Twitter users cried “scam”. But it does not take foul play to produce such an outcome, says Michael Dunne‐Willows