On the discrepancy of powers of random variables

DOI10.1016/J.SPL.2017.10.006MaRDI QIDQ1698237zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Nicolas Chenavier, Dominique Schneider

Publication date 15 February 2018

Published in Statistics \& Probability Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.04626

zbMATH Keywords

discrepancyBenford's lawmantissa

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Convergence of probability measures (60B10) Irregularities of distribution, discrepancy (11K38)

Abstract: Let $(d_n)$ be a sequence of positive numbers and let $(X_n)$ be a sequence of positive independent random variables. We provide an upper bound for the deviation between the distribution of the mantissaes of $(X_n^{d_n})$ and the Benford's law. If $d_n$ goes to infinity at a rate at most polynomial, this deviation converges a.s. to 0 as $N$ goes to infinity.

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