An Introduction to Benford's Law / / Theodore P. Hill, Arno Berger.
This book provides the first comprehensive treatment of Benford's law, the surprising logarithmic distribution of significant digits discovered in the late nineteenth century. Establishing the mathematical and statistical principles that underpin this intriguing phenomenon, the text combines up...
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015] ©2015 |
Year of Publication: | 2015 |
Edition: | Course Book |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 p.) :; 47 color illus. 4 line illus. 2 tables. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Significant Digits and the Significand
- 3. The Benford Property
- 4. The Uniform Distribution and Benford's Law
- 5. Scale-, Base-, and Sum-Invariance
- 6. Real-valued Deterministic Processes
- 7. Multi-dimensional Linear Processes
- 8. Real-valued Random Processes
- 9. Finitely Additive Probability and Benford's Law
- 10. Applications of Benford's Law
- List of Symbols
- Bibliography
- Index