On the nature of Benford's Law

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 303, Issue 3-4, 2002, Pages 387-396

  Gottwald, Georg A ^a   Nicol, Matthew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Benford's law; Multiplicative process; Scaling laws

Indexed keywords

CHAOS THEORY; MAPPING; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

REAL NUMBERS;

NUMBER THEORY;

EID: 0037081064     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(01)00497-6     Document Type: Article

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