Re: Benford's law and simulation

2000-05-16 Thread Henry
On 12 May 2000 08:09:06 GMT, "DIAMOND Mark R" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Background: Theodore Hill showed, in a paper published in Statistical >Science 1995, that if sequences of random variables $\{X\sb n\}$ are >selected at random in a scale (base) unbiased way, then the mantissa >distribution

Re: Benford's law and simulation

2000-05-15 Thread P.G.Hamer
DIAMOND Mark R wrote: > Background: Theodore Hill showed, in a paper published in Statistical > Science 1995, that if sequences of random variables $\{X\sb n\}$ are > selected at random in a scale (base) unbiased way, then the mantissa > distributions of the combined sample will converge to Benfo

Benford's law and simulation

2000-05-12 Thread DIAMOND Mark R
Background: Theodore Hill showed, in a paper published in Statistical Science 1995, that if sequences of random variables $\{X\sb n\}$ are selected at random in a scale (base) unbiased way, then the mantissa distributions of the combined sample will converge to Benford's law---a random probability