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2006;15:68-69; doi:10.1136/tc.2005.012443 / February 2006 (Volume 15, Number 1)
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Author: M R Pakko / Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis St Louis, Missouri, USA
Intro: A paper by Mandel, Alamar, and Glantz, recently published in Tobacco Control, purports to show that the implementation of a smoking prohibition in Delaware had no statistically significant effect on the gaming revenue from slot machine-like video lottery terminals (VLTs) located at Delaware racetracks.1 A subsequently published correction by Glantz and Alamar corrects for a data coding error and for reported heteroskedasticity in the data, but reaches the same conclusion of no significant effect.2
I have carefully examined the data and methodologies used in those studies, and conclude that their finding is questionable.
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