A Simple Explanation of Benford's Law
By Rachel M. Fewster. 2009
143 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Subfields: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Statistics and Probability
View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/02cb931f6ee5a58b1d8a20480845d6fad0e4b92b
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- The Quality of China's GDP Statistics (2014, background): “Nye and Moul (2007) suggest that the data should span at least two orders of magnitude, while Fewster (2009) reports that with four orders of magnitude and a sample size of 100 it is “difficult for a distribution not to look reasonably Benford” (p. 31).”