A general example for Benford data

DOI10.1198/TAST.2010.09169MaRDI QIDQ3021425zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Henry W. Block, Thomas H. Savits

Publication date 25 July 2011

Published in The American Statistician (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1198/tast.2010.09169

zbMATH Keywords

Benford's lawlaw of the stripey hatsignificant digits

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Distribution theory (60E99) Applications of statistics (62P99)

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