[Fwd: Re: Mysql lib]

[reavey]

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Subject: Re: Mysql lib
Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2003 20:53:34 -0500
From: "Bob Showalter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "reavey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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reavey wrote:

I'm interested in libraries or procedures which can produce reports
on a mysql
database.

The DBI module is recommended for database access. You'll need the
DBD::mysql driver module to go with it.

I've loaded a mysql database which has powerball numbers.
I'd like to analyze the data for simple things like:
Which number occurs most frequently?
Adding the winning numbers and taking their average?
Statistical techniques to discover a pattern?

You can retreive the data using DBI, and write scripts to do statistical
analysis.

But since lottery drawings are independent events, what could any of this
information possibly tell you? :~)


Thanks for the help, I'll look into DBI.
It's possible that the drawings are not random independent events. It might be that
there is a flaw in the design. re-v