Benford's law for exponential random variables

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 361-365

  Engel, Hans Andreas ^a   Leuenberger, Christoph ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b Ecole d'Ingenieurs et d'Architectes de Fribourg   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Benford's law; Exponential distribution; Significant digit law

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037632943     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-7152(03)00101-9     Document Type: Article

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