Open AccessA Note on Distributions of True versus Fabricated Data
Author(s) -
Theodore P. Hill
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
perceptual and motor skills
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.497
H-Index - 69
eISSN - 1558-688X
pISSN - 0031-5125
DOI - 10.2466/pms.1996.83.3.776
Subject(s) - benford's law , goodness of fit , statistical hypothesis testing , statistics , econometrics , statistical analysis , mathematics , psychology , computer science
96> =1,2,...,9,and(2) Prob(second significant digit = d)=#9k=1 log 10#1+110k+d #for d =0,1,2,...,9.1Research partially supported by NSF Grant DMS-95-03375. Requestreprints of T. P. Hill, School of Mathematics, Georgia Instituteof Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0160, USA.1For example, (1) says that the first significant digit is 1 withprobability log 10#1+11#=log 10 (2)#= 0.301, and is 9 with probabilitylog 10#1+19##= 0.046. Similarly,...
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