On Rounding Percentages

DOI10.2307/2286335zbMath0419.60015OpenAlexW4233146330MaRDI QIDQ5904182

Persi Diaconis, David Freedman

Publication date: 1979

Published in: Journal of the American Statistical Association (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2286335

zbMATH Keywords

limit theoremmultinomialrounding errormixture of multinomialsleading digittable of counts

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Roundoff error (65G50) Distribution theory (60E99) Limit theorems in probability theory (60F99)

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