the newcomb-benford law in its relation to some common distributionsnewcomb-benford法律在一些常见分布的关系.pdfVIP

The Newcomb-Benford Law in Its Relation to Some Common Distributions Anton K. Formann* Department of Psychological Basic Research, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria Abstract An often reported, but nevertheless persistently striking observation, formalized as the Newcomb-Benford law (NBL), is that the frequencies with which the leading digits of numbers occur in a large variety of data are far away from being uniform. Most spectacular seems to be the fact that in many data the leading digit 1 occurs in nearly one third of all cases. Ex