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What Is Benford's Law?
Author(s) -
Bradley Jonathan R.,
Farnsworth David L.
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
teaching statistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.425
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 1467-9639
pISSN - 0141-982X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9639.2009.00347.x
Subject(s) - benford's law , property (philosophy) , computer science , econometrics , mathematics education , mathematics , mathematical economics , statistics , epistemology , philosophy
Summary The surprising property of many data sets that their first significant digits follow Benford's Law provides examples that can pique and hold students’ interest. Several ideas for student activities are presented.