Type:
Category:
Volume:
2(2)
Pages:
Online
Year:
1994
Publisher:
Journal of Statistics Education
URL:
http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/v2n2/wasserstein.html
Abstract:
Students of all ages seem fascinated by the lottery, making it a ready tool for illustrating basic probabilistic concepts. The author has developed a program called "Lotto Luck" for IBM PC compatibles which has been used on over 100 classrooms from grades 6 through 12 and with dozens of college classes and civic groups to demonstrate what happens to the "earnings" of the frequent lottery player over a period of time. We discuss how to use the program and provide information for obtaining the complied code by ftp.
The CAUSE Research Group is supported in part by a member initiative grant from the American Statistical Association’s Section on Statistics and Data Science Education