Andishe_ye Amari

Andishe_ye Amari

Ben Ford's Law and its Applications

Document Type : Original Article

Author
Statistics Department, Imam Khomeini University
Abstract
In this article, Benford's law is considered as one of the interesting rules of probability theory. Contrary to the general idea that numbers are equally likely to be in different positions, this law shows that in observations from many natural phenomena, numbers are distributed in a special and non-uniform way in different positions. Benford's law provides a discrete and asymmetric distribution for the significant digits of observations from counts or from natural events and has a wide variety of applications in different fields.
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Volume 18, Issue 1
September 2013
Pages 71-84

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  • First Publish Date 15 May 2025
  • Publish Date 23 August 2013