An introduction to Benford's law /

This book provides the first comprehensive treatment of Benford's law, the surprising logarithmic distribution of significant digits discovered in the late nineteenth century. Establishing the mathematical and statistical principles that underpin this intriguing phenomenon, the text combines up...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Berger, Arno, 1968- (Autor), Hill, Theodore Preston (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2015]
Temas:
Distribution (Probability theory)
Probability measures.
Distribution (Théorie des probabilités)
Mesures de probabilités.
distribution (statistics-related concept)
MATHEMATICS > Applied.
MATHEMATICS > Probability & Statistics > General.
MATHEMATICS > General.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Significant digits and the significand
  • The Benford property
  • The uniform distribution and Benford's law
  • Scale-, base-, and sum-invariance
  • Real-valued deterministic processes
  • Multi-dimensional linear processes
  • Real-valued random processes
  • Finitely additive probability and Benford's law
  • Applications of Benford's law.

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