A basic theory of Benford's law
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instance of: scholarly article
title: A basic theory of Benford's law
zbMATH Open document ID: 1245.60016
DOI: 10.1214/11-PS175
author: Arno Berger
author: Theodore P. Hill
published in: Probability Surveys
publication date: 2012-06-28T00:00:00Z
full work available at URL: https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ps/1311860830
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 60E05
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 60-01
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 11K06
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 39A60
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 37A45
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 60F15
zbMATH DE Number: 6050902
zbMATH Keywords: Benford's law
zbMATH Keywords: significant digits
zbMATH Keywords: uniform distribution mod 1
zbMATH Keywords: scale-invariance
zbMATH Keywords: base-invariance
zbMATH Keywords: sum-invariance
zbMATH Keywords: shadowing
zbMATH Keywords: difference equation
zbMATH Keywords: random probability measure
zbMATH Keywords: mixture of distributions
MaRDI profile type: Publication
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