June 20, 2018

Surprising lotto wins

The Herald has an annoyingly uncritical story about someone who claims to have a mathematical formula for winning the lottery, rather than just being lucky.

Much more interesting: BBC’s More or Less had a story about multiple lottery wins and how they might come about.

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Thomas Lumley (@tslumley) is Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Auckland. His research interests include semiparametric models, survey sampling, statistical computing, foundations of statistics, and whatever methodological problems his medical collaborators come up with. He also blogs at Biased and Inefficient See all posts by Thomas Lumley »

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