%0 Journal Article %T Lottery Numbers and Ordered Statistics %A Kung-Kuen Tse %J Applied Mathematics %P 287-291 %@ 2152-7393 %D 2024 %I Scientific Research Publishing %R 10.4236/am.2024.154017 %X The lottery has long captivated the imagination of players worldwide, offering the tantalizing possibility of life-changing wins. While winning the lottery is largely a matter of chance, as lottery drawings are typically random and unpredictable. Some people use the lottery terminal randomly generates numbers for them, some players choose numbers that hold personal significance to them, such as birthdays, anniversaries, or other important dates, some enthusiasts have turned to statistical analysis as a means to analyze past winning numbers identify patterns or frequencies. In this paper, we use order statistics to estimate the probability of specific order of numbers or number combinations being drawn in future drawings. %K Lottery %K Order Statistics %K Hypergeometric Distribution %K Expectation %K Uniform %U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=132654