The 1970 US draft lottery revisited: a spatial analysis

Authors: Mateu J.¹; Montes F.²; Plaza M.³

Source: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C (Applied Statistics), Volume 53, Number 1, January 2004 , pp. 219-229(11)

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

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Abstract:

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.

Keywords: Interevent distances; k(r) function; Random permutations; Spatial point processes

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.0035-9254.2003.05293.x

Affiliations: 1: Universitat Jaume I, Castelló, Spain. 2: Universitat de València, Spain. 3: Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete, Spain.

Publication date: 2004-01-01