Regularity of digits and significant digits of random variables

Stochastic Processes and their Applications

Volumn 115, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1723-1743

  Hill, Theodore P ^a   Schürger, Klaus ^b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Benford's law; Digit regular random variable; Floating point numbers; Law of least significant digits; Nonleading digits; Normal numbers; Significant digits; Significant digit regular random variable; Trailing digits

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ERROR ANALYSIS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; PROBABILITY;

BENFORD'S LAW; DIGIT-REGULAR RANDOM NUMBERS; FLOATING-POINT NUMBERS; LOW OF LEAST SIGNIFICANT NUMBERS; NONLEADING DIGITS; NORMAL NUMBERS; SIGNIFICANT DIGIT-REGULAR RANDOM NUMBES; SIGNIFICANT DIGITS; TRAILING DIGITS;

RANDOM PROCESSES;

EID: 24144485809     PISSN: 03044149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spa.2005.05.003     Document Type: Article

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