Generalizing Benford's law using power laws: application to integer sequences

DOI10.1155/2009/970284zbMATH Open1193.62014arXivmath/0607166OpenAlexW2006403259WikidataQ58648534 ScholiaQ58648534MaRDI QIDQ1035183FDOQ1035183

Authors: Werner Hürlimann 

Publication date: 10 November 2009

Published in: International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A simple method to derive parametric analytical extensions of Benford's law for first digits of numerical data is proposed. Two generalized Benford distributions are considered, namely the two-sided power Benford distribution and the new Pareto Benford distribution. The fitting capabilities of these generalized Benford distributions are illustrated and compared at some interesting and important integer sequences.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0607166

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exact distribution theory in statistics (62E15) Point estimation (62F10) Characterization and structure theory of statistical distributions (62E10)

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