Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 122(4), pp. 193-197.
ISSN/ISBN: 0003-049X DOI: Not available at this time.
Abstract: In this paper we show by a rather elementary statistical method that Benford's law is expected to hold for tables containing random numbers. However, statistical randomness is not a uniquely defined concept. Thus we also harve defined a particular process to create such random numbers. What remains unexplained is why popula- tion tables and many other socioeconomic quantities behave like random numbers.
Bibtex:
@article{,
title={The first digit phenomenon},
author={Logan, Jonothan L and Goudsmit, Samuel A},
journal={Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society},
pages={193--197},
year={1978},
publisher={JSTOR},
ISSN={0003-049X},
URL={http://www.jstor.org/stable/986530 },
}
Reference Type: Journal Article
Subject Area(s): General Interest, Statistics