On Benford's law to variable base

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 391-397

  Schatte, P ^a  

^a TU BERGAKADEMIE FREIBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Benford's law; Discrepancy; First digit problem; Mantissa distribution; Products of random variables; Sums of random variables

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032579666     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0167-7152(97)00142-9     Document Type: Article

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