Scale-distortion inequalities for mantissas of finite data sets

DOI10.1007/s10959-007-0112-zzbMath1162.68306OpenAlexW2085790671MaRDI QIDQ2481396

Kent E. Morrison, Arno Berger, Theodore P. Hill

Publication date: 9 April 2008

Published in: Journal of Theoretical Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10959-007-0112-z

zbMATH Keywords

Kantorovich metricBenford's LawMantissa distributionScale-distortionScale-invariance

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Mathematical problems of computer architecture (68M07)

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