Lottery Spending: A Non-Parametric Analysis

We analyze the spending of individuals in the United States on lottery tickets in an average month, as reported in surveys. We view these surveys as sampling from an unknown distribution, and we use non-parametric methods to compare properties of this distribution for various demographic groups, as...

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Autores principales: Garibaldi, Skip, Frisoli, Kayla, Ke, Li, Lim, Melody
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4314186/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25642699
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0115730
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description We analyze the spending of individuals in the United States on lottery tickets in an average month, as reported in surveys. We view these surveys as sampling from an unknown distribution, and we use non-parametric methods to compare properties of this distribution for various demographic groups, as well as claims that some properties of this distribution are constant across surveys. We find that the observed higher spending by Hispanic lottery players can be attributed to differences in education levels, and we dispute previous claims that the top 10% of lottery players consistently account for 50% of lottery sales.
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spelling pubmed-43141862015-02-13 Lottery Spending: A Non-Parametric Analysis Garibaldi, Skip Frisoli, Kayla Ke, Li Lim, Melody PLoS One Research Article We analyze the spending of individuals in the United States on lottery tickets in an average month, as reported in surveys. We view these surveys as sampling from an unknown distribution, and we use non-parametric methods to compare properties of this distribution for various demographic groups, as well as claims that some properties of this distribution are constant across surveys. We find that the observed higher spending by Hispanic lottery players can be attributed to differences in education levels, and we dispute previous claims that the top 10% of lottery players consistently account for 50% of lottery sales. Public Library of Science 2015-02-02 /pmc/articles/PMC4314186/ /pubmed/25642699 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0115730 Text en © 2015 Garibaldi et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4314186/
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