Benford's Law

Reply #5

Thoth — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 17:26:15 GMT

Take a look at the performance of the following two skips ranges:

The 1,s Range

1, 10:19, 100:199

The 2,s Range

2, 20:29, 200:299

Both the ranges include 111 possible points for skips to end in. I intentionally left out 1000:1999 from the 1,s range and 2000:2999 from the 2,s range. This shows that a bias does exist even without including that vast stretch of skips from 1000 to 1999 games later. In every instance, hits in the 1,s range occured more often.

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Reply #4

Thoth — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 16:39:07 GMT

The digits on the balls themselves (or electronically selected digits/combos in an RNG drawing) do not follow benfords law. We will not find the digit one being drawn in a significantly higher amount than any of the other digits in the game. However, the skips of the digits and/or combos follow Benford's Law very closely.

If you do some reading into Benford's Law you will see that it has been attributed to the effect of the probability of probability. I have found (and shown) that the sk... [ More ]

Reply #3

KY Floyd — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 07:08:03 GMT

It doesn't. Lottery results are random and don't follow Benford's law.

Reply #2

alsports2000 — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 03:10:06 GMT

Read the article on Benford's Law and learned the the number one is a more probable number to come out from one to nine more often. How does that fit in to the Texas pick three's midday and evenings???? Thanks. AL.

Reply #1

KY Floyd — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 17:36:43 GMT

Benford's law definitely points to some interesting stuff, but the simple form of it is really just that numbers that aren't random don't have a random distribution, and the interesting conclusion is that a lot of numbers we might think would be random aren't.

Benford's Law

tntea — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 04:11:08 GMT

http://www.rexswain.com/benford.html