Benford's Law
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Problems 23
- According to Benford's law, which digit is the most common to occur as the leading digit of a number over a set that spans multiple magnitudes?
- Which of these would follow Benford's law?
- The number 111 appeared 300300300 times in data set A, approximately how many times did the number 555 appear?
- True or false: the sum of the frequencies of the leading digits in a set of data that follows Benford's Law can be greater than 100100100%.
- Does this data (for leading digits) follow Benford's Law?
- Does this data (for leading digits) follow Benford's Law?
- Does this data (for leading digits) follow Benford's Law?
- Does this data (for leading digits) follow Benford's Law?
- Does this data (for leading digits) follow Benford's Law?
- Does this data (for leading digits) follow Benford's Law?
- True or False\text{True or False}True or False === A random distribution of numbers (say, the number of times a random number generator shows the digits 1,2,…,91,2,\dots,91,2,…,…
- Suppose you have a set of data that follows Benford's Law. Will multiplying the leading digit data by a constant (perhaps by taking more data points or repeating experiments) ch…
- In data that follows Benford's Law, which digit appears as the leading digit approximately 17.617.617.6% of the time?
- In data that follows Benford's Law, which digit appears as the leading digit approximately 12.512.512.5% of the time?
- In data that follows Benford's Law, which digit appears as the leading digit approximately 30.130.130.1% of the time?
- In data that follows Benford's Law, which digit appears as the leading digit approximately 9.79.79.7% of the time?
- In data that follows Benford's Law, which digit appears as the leading digit approximately 7.97.97.9% of the time?
- In data that follows Benford's Law, which digit appears as the leading digit approximately 6.76.76.7% of the time?
- In data that follows Benford's Law, which digit appears as the leading digit approximately 5.85.85.8% of the time?
- In data that follows Benford's Law, which digit appears as the leading digit approximately 5.15.15.1% of the time?
- In data that follows Benford's Law, which digit appears as the leading digit approximately 4.64.64.6% of the time?
- What happens in base 222?
- What is the probability that the leading digits of a number are 314314314?