As a trained statistician with degrees from MIT and Stanford University, Srivastava was intrigued by the technical problem posed by the lottery ticket. In fact, it reminded him a lot of his day job, ...
In North America, the lottery is a $70 billion-a-year industry, bigger than movies, music, and porn combined. But it’s not infallible. That’s what Mohan Srivastava, a geological statistician, found ...