Examination of Proper Randomness of the Number Generated by L. H. C. Tippett

In the construction of Random Numbers Table, L.H.C. Tippett used some mechanical techniques for generating the random numbers. The numbers in the table have been subjected to various statistical test of randomness. In this paper, the randomness of random numbers generated by L. H. C. Tippett has been tested by applying the Chi-square (χ2 ) test for testing the significance of difference between observed frequency of each of the digit in the table and the corresponding theoretical (expected) frequency. The test shows that the random numbers table constructed by Tippett is not random, because the random numbers of the table deviate significantly from proper randomness.