TESTING OF PROPER RANDOMNESS OF THE TABLE OF NUMBERS GENERATED BY M.G. KENDALL AND B. BABINGTON SMITH (1939)

In the Construction of Random number Table, Kendall and Babington Smith applied some mechanical techniques for generating the random numbers. The numbers in the table have been subjected to various statistical test for randomness. In this paper, the randomness of random numbers generated by Kendall and Babington Smith have been tested by applying the chi-square ( ) test for testing the significance of difference between observed frequency of each of the digits in the table and the corresponding theoretical (expected) frequency. The test shows that the random numbers table constructed by Kendall and Babington Smith is not random, because the random numbers of the table deviate significantly from proper randomness