On the significands of uniform random variables

DOI10.1017/JPR.2018.23MaRDI QIDQ4684944zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Arno Berger, Isaac Twelves

Publication date 26 September 2018

Published in Journal of Applied Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1017/jpr.2018.23

zbMATH Keywords

Benford random variableKolmogorov distancesignificandspreaduniform random variable

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Inequalities; stochastic orderings (60E15) Exact distribution theory in statistics (62E15)

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