Impugning Randomness, Convincingly
Abstract
John organized a state lottery and his wife won the main prize. You may feel that the event of her winning wasn't particularly random, but how would you argue that in a fair court of law? Traditional probability theory does not even have the notion of random events. Algorithmic information theory does, but it is not applicable to real-world scenarios like the lottery one. We attempt to rectify that.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- December 2015
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.1601.00665
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1601.00665
- Bibcode:
- 2016arXiv160100665G
- Keywords:
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- Statistics - Other Statistics
- E-Print:
- Bulletin of Euro. Assoc. for Theor. Computer Science 104, June 2011. Studia Logica 82 (2012)