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The 1970 US draft lottery revisited: a spatial analysis. (English) Zbl 1111.62394

Summary: We revise the result of the 1970 selective service draft lottery in the USA following an open question that was suggested by Fienberg in a paper published in Science in 1971. The result of the drawings can be viewed as a particular spatial pattern which can be analysed by using general spatial tools adapted to our context. Approaches for assessing the complete spatial randomness for this spatial process on a finite support are proposed. More specifically, these approaches involve the number of events in a square window and a \(k(r)\)-based function used to analyse stationary spatial point processes.

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62P99 Applications of statistics
62M30 Inference from spatial processes
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