Breakdown of Benford's law for birth data

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 419, Issue , 2015, Pages 736-745

  Ausloos, M ^a,b   Herteliu, C ^c   Ileanu, B ^c  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^c BUCHAREST UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMIC STUDIES   (Romania)

Author keywords

Benford's laws; Births; Non Orthodoxes; Orthodoxes; Religious community; Time series

Indexed keywords

TIME SERIES;

BENFORD'S LAW; BIRTHS; NON-ORTHODOXES; ORTHODOXES; RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

EID: 84910671511     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2014.10.041     Document Type: Article

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