The 1970 US draft lottery revisited: a spatial analysis

We revise the result of the 1970 selective service draft lottery in the USA following an open question that was suggested by Fienberg in a paper published in "Science" in 1971. The result of the drawings can be viewed as a particular spatial pattern which can be analysed by using general spatial tools adapted to our context. Approaches for assessing the complete spatial randomness for this spatial process on a finite support are proposed. More specifically, these approaches involve the number of events in a square window and a "k"("r")-based function used to analyse stationary spatial point processes. Copyright 2004 Royal Statistical Society.