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Benford's law for exponential random variables

✍ Scribed by Hans-Andreas Engel; Christoph Leuenberger

Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2003
Tongue
English
Weight
192 KB
Volume
63
Category
Article
ISSN
0167-7152

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✦ Synopsis

Benford's law assigns the probability log 10 (1 + 1=d) for ΓΏnding a number starting with speciΓΏc signiΓΏcant digit d. We show that exponentially distributed numbers obey this law approximatively, i.e., within bounds of 0.03.

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