Benford or not Benford: a systematic but not always well-founded use of an elegant law in experimental fields

DOI10.1007/S40304-018-00172-1zbMath1443.60009arXiv1804.06186OpenAlexW2964180137WikidataQ114852229 ScholiaQ114852229MaRDI QIDQ2191436

Stéphane Blondeau Da Silva

Publication date: 24 June 2020

Published in: Communications in Mathematics and Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.06186

zbMATH Keywords

experimental dataBenford's lawleading digit

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Probability distributions: general theory (60E05)

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Uses Software

• Python

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