Analytics. Maths. Trends. Visualisation. Probability. PokerTableRatings - Poker Player Stats Search, Hand Histories, Table Selection, Rakeback. How to Analyze the Lottery. University of Minnesota, Twin Cities School of Statistics Charlie Geyer Home Page John Corbett Home Page John Corbett and Charles Geyer Updated Feb 16, 2006.
Abstract The number of winners in a lottery has an approximate Poisson distribution, and the expected number of winners is the number of tickets sold divided by the number of ways to win (approximately 146.1 million for the Powerball Lottery).