Volume:
65
Pages:
7-Jun
Year:
2004
Publisher:
Statistics Teacher Network
Abstract:
This article gives intuition for the magnitude of the MegaMillions jackpot probability and then goes on to show how a lottery can be used to explore all the major topics of an introductory statistics course.
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