Analyse some of the statistics of the National Lottery (especially sales information), and see whether there are any trends, similarities, patterns, or correlations in the data.
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The National Lottery Introduction Aims The Aims of this Project are: * To analyse some of the statistics of the National Lottery (especially sales information), and to see whether there are any trends, similarities, patterns, or correlations in the data. * To check whether some of the statistical variables surrounding the National Lottery fit a known statistical distribution. How the Statistics Were Collected The statistics were collected from the Internet. I originally found complete information on the first 187 lottery draws, but decided that this was too many to be easily manageable. Therefore I decided to randomly select 50 draws from this set of information. I used my calculator to generate random numbers from 1 to 187 (without generating previous numbers), and used this to select a final table of data which contained 50 randomly selected lottery draws, which I then sorted by draw number. The data will be reproduced in portions throughout the project. No...


