Impugning Randomness, Convincingly
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2016-01-06 v1
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.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1601.00665,
title = {Impugning Randomness, Convincingly},
author = {Yuri Gurevich and Grant Olney Passmore},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1601.00665},
year = {2016}
}