Survival Distributions Satisfying Benford's Law

American Statistician

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 236-241

  Leemis, Lawrence M ^a   Schmeiser, Bruce W ^b   Evans, Diane L ^a  

^a The College of William and Mary   (United States)

^b SCHOOL OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING   (United States)

Author keywords

Lifetimes; Random variables; Variate generation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034556676     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: 15372731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00031305.2000.10474554     Document Type: Article

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