You’ve collected and summarized a bunch of data here, but it would be much more useful (and straightforward) to run some inferential procedures (Monte Carlo procedures would be particularly easy to implement in this case) to see if these results were compatible with the hypothesis of a fair game. Give it a try!
Actually – using some optimized queries in MySQL against the tables that were created in the analysis allowed to rank score every conceivable lottery number. Optimization was needed to get the run time down from one year to about 36 hours. But, you don’t think I’m going to give away MY number and share that cough winning cough with everybody?
You’ve collected and summarized a bunch of data here, but it would be much more useful (and straightforward) to run some inferential procedures (Monte Carlo procedures would be particularly easy to implement in this case) to see if these results were compatible with the hypothesis of a fair game. Give it a try!
Actually – using some optimized queries in MySQL against the tables that were created in the analysis allowed to rank score every conceivable lottery number. Optimization was needed to get the run time down from one year to about 36 hours. But, you don’t think I’m going to give away MY number and share that
coughwinningcoughwith everybody?