From uniform distributions to Benford's law

DOI10.1239/jap/1101840566zbMath1065.60095WikidataQ56068767 ScholiaQ56068767MaRDI QIDQ4660545

Thierry De La Rue, Élise Janvresse

Publication date: 4 April 2005

Published in: Journal of Applied Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://semanticscholar.org/paper/f6296c741d4227c3003c48396bba265b4bffc6bf

zbMATH Keywords

probability distribution; Benford's law; mantissa

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

60J10: Markov chains (discrete-time Markov processes on discrete state spaces)

11K99: Probabilistic theory: distribution modulo (1); metric theory of algorithms

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