Empirical mantissa distributions of pulsars

Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 255-262

  Shao, Lijing ^a   Ma, Bo Qiang ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Benford's law; First digit law; Mantissa distribution; Pulsar

Indexed keywords

BENFORD'S LAW; LOGARITHMIC LAW; NON-ZERO DIGITS; REAL WORLD DATA; THEORETICAL MODELS;

EID: 77950593495     PISSN: 09276505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.astropartphys.2010.02.003     Document Type: Article

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