How odd is a cluster of plane crashes?

Re:How odd is a cluster of plane crashes? by dmichulke on Tuesday August 18, 2015 @06:50AM (#10078469)

I don't disagree at all and I remember seeing studies or articles writing about that phenomenon.

Just wanted to add that a few years ago (when you wrote your first computer program) a randomly selected random number generator was more likely to be less random than a randomly selected random number generator today.

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Re:How odd is a cluster of plane crashes? by yitchelle on Tuesday August 18, 2015 @06:56AM (#10078486)

The method described in the article on how the statistician approached the problem is very similar to the approach used in the birthday problem[1].

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem

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Re:How odd is a cluster of plane crashes? by DanBC on Tuesday August 18, 2015 @07:27AM (#10078589)

Early random number generation was terrible. You wouldn't get clumps / no clumps, you'd get fuzzy straight lines.

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Re:How odd is a cluster of plane crashes? by simonh on Tuesday August 18, 2015 @02:06PM (#10080978)

Approximately 35 years ago :)

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