2604.01824 Statistical Analysis of Stopping Times in the Collatz Conjecture: A Fully Reproducible Computational Study
This research note presents a large-scale computational analysis of the distribution and statistical properties of 'stopping times' for 10,000 randomly selected starting integers between 1 and 1,000,000. Using a deterministic Python framework, we compute descriptive statistics, assess correlation with starting value, and perform distributional fit testing.