I'm about to go down a Pick 3 Rabbit Hole (again), but before I do, thought I'd share what I'm thinking of on the off chance that someone has looked at this in detail already.
When it comes to Skips between hits of a given number, many have evaluated Skips a) for each of the 3 individual columns (i.e. separate analyses for Digits 1, 2, and 3), and b) by any position.
"By individual column" examples, using the data below (most recent drawing on top): For Digit 1, 7 has skipped 2 draws since it last hit; for Digit 2, 1 has skipped 0 draws since it last hit; for Digit 3, 8 has skipped 1 draw since it last hit, and skipped 2 draws the time before.
"By any position" examples: 0 has skipped 1 draw since it last hit, 2 has skipped 2 since it last hit, and skipped 0 draws before that.
5 |
1 |
3 |
0 |
5 |
8 |
7 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
1 |
6 |
1 |
1 |
8 |
The Rabbit Hole I'm about to go into is this: what if we create a string of numbers, with the most recently drawn as the first number, and continue going back in time for a TBD amount of draws, and look at skips from the previous hit in that string? Using the data above, the string would be 315850227612811, and the most recent skips for the number 1 would be 8, for the number 2 it would be 0, for the number 5 it would be 1, etc.
I have no idea if there's any benefit to doing it this way, this may just be another way of slicing the historical data. The math is exactly the same as looking at skips column by column; the probability of hitting a given number is 1/10, and 50% of a given number's skips will be 0 to 6, and 50% will be greater than 6.
Any thoughts?