How fast increasing powers of a continuous random variable converge to Benford's law

DOI10.1016/J.SPL.2013.09.003MaRDI QIDQ2439641zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Michał Ryszard Wójcik

Publication date 14 March 2014

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.5767

zbMATH Keywords

Benford's lawconvergence in distributionFourier analysisFourier coefficientsmantissa distributionrate of convergencesignificant distributionuniform distribution modulo 1

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Probability distributions: general theory (60E05) Strong limit theorems (60F15)

Abstract: It is known that increasing powers of a continuous random variable converge in distribution to Benford's law as the exponent approaches infinity. The rate of convergence has been estimated using Fourier analysis, but we present an elementary method, which is easier to apply and provides a better estimation in the widely studied case of a uniformly distributed random variable.

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