A concise proof of Benford's law

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العنوان: A concise proof of Benford's law
المؤلفون: Wang, Luohan, Ma, Bo-Qiang
المصدر: Fundamental Research 4 (2024) 841-844
سنة النشر: 2024
المجموعة: Mathematics
Statistics
مصطلحات موضوعية: Mathematics - Statistics Theory, Mathematics - Probability, Statistics - Other Statistics
الوصف: This article presents a concise proof of the famous Benford's law when the distribution has a Riemann integrable probability density function and provides a criterion to judge whether a distribution obeys the law. The proof is intuitive and elegant, accessible to anyone with basic knowledge of calculus, revealing that the law originates from the basic property of the human number system. The criterion can bring great convenience to the field of fraud detection.
Comment: 5 latex pages, 1 figure, final version for publication with published pages in journal revised
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1016/j.fmre.2023.01.002
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2407.11076
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2407.11076
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv
الوصف
DOI:10.1016/j.fmre.2023.01.002