Journal of Applied Probability 41(4), pp. 1203-1210.
ISSN/ISBN: 0021-9002 DOI: Not available at this time.
Abstract: We provide a new, probabilistic explanation for the appearance of Benford's law in everyday-life numbers, by showing that it arises naturally when we consider mixtures of uniform distributions. Then we connect our result to a result of Flehinger, for which we provide a shorter proof, and the speed of convergence.
Bibtex:
@article{,
title={From uniform distributions to Benford's law},
author={Janvresse, {\'E}lise and De la Rue, Thierry and others},
journal={Journal of Applied Probability},
volume={41},
number={4},
pages={1203--1210},
year={2004},
publisher={Applied Probability Trust},
ISSN={0021-9002},
}
Reference Type: Journal Article
Subject Area(s): Analysis, Probability Theory