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Originally Posted by supernothing  I know the sample is the population and there are no larger ones available.
My contention is that with a field of only 116 numbers the randomness of the last digits is not a suitable test. On a much larger set of numbers you WOULD expect the last digits to take up their proportional share - but the smaller the set is the less suitable that test is. I would guess that 116 is just too small a set of numbers for this test to be relevant - if you randomly generated 116 numbers I would think it extremely unlikely that they would all appear equally. |
What are you basing that on? It looks like you're just saying "it seems to me...". Of course larger samples are preferable but you can work out if the sample size is enough to give you valid results.
They've given a p value, which means they must have corrected for sample size, and the p value came out at less than 0.05. If the conclusion was invalid the p value wouldn't have been so low (although "significance" is selected more or less arbitrarily, 0.05 is pretty standard and pretty tight).
You'd have to see exactly what stats tests they used to be sure, like, and I'm no statistician.
