http://www.decisionsciencenews.com/2009/10/06/the-bulgarian-coincidence/ A website about decision research in Marketing, Psychology, Economics, Behavioral Economics, Finance, Medicine, Law, Management, Public Policy, Statistics, Computer Science. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:44:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.decisionsciencenews.com/2009/10/06/the-bulgarian-coincidence/comment-page-1/#comment-2345 Thom Sun, 18 Oct 2009 10:29:45 +0000 http://www.decisionsciencenews.com/?p=1104#comment-2345 This estimate looks a little low - my very rough quick estimate based on 400 lotteries per week was about .15% in one year. I may have messed up the calculation slightly, but including all the multiple draws and regional as well as National lotteries you could easily get higher probabilities. The UK alone has at least 6 National draws per week. This estimate looks a little low – my very rough quick estimate based on 400 lotteries per week was about .15% in one year. I may have messed up the calculation slightly, but including all the multiple draws and regional as well as National lotteries you could easily get higher probabilities. The UK alone has at least 6 National draws per week.

]]> http://www.decisionsciencenews.com/2009/10/06/the-bulgarian-coincidence/comment-page-1/#comment-2313 Dennis O'Brien Fri, 09 Oct 2009 11:31:15 +0000 http://www.decisionsciencenews.com/?p=1104#comment-2313 Given the number of state and national lotteries worldwide and their various win probabilities, how often should we expect a lottery to have identical consecutive winning numbers? Given the number of state and national lotteries worldwide and their various win probabilities, how often should we expect a lottery to have identical consecutive winning numbers?

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