Base-Invariance Implies Benford's Law

DOI10.2307/2160815zbMath0813.60002OpenAlexW4231333926MaRDI QIDQ4327670

Theodore P. Hill

Publication date: 10 April 1995

Published in: Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/rgp_rsr/30

zbMATH Keywords

base-invariant distributionsBenford's law or the first-digit phenomenonextremal probabilitiesresults for invariant measures

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Measure-preserving transformations (28D05) Probabilistic measure theory (60A10)

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