On the generalized Benford law

DOI10.1016/J.SPL.2020.108702MaRDI QIDQ2175602zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Luca Pratelli, Lucio Barabesi

Publication date 29 April 2020

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spl.2020.108702

zbMATH Keywords

Benford's lawfractional part distributionsignificant digit distribution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Probability distributions: general theory (60E05) Exact distribution theory in statistics (62E15) Central limit and other weak theorems (60F05)

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