Benford's Very Strange Law

Gresham College Lectures

Gresham College Lectures
Benford's Very Strange Law
Feb 01, 2011
Gresham College
The first digits of randomly chosen numbers arising naturally or in human affairs display surprising statistical regularities. We will see why this distribution of digits, first found by Simon Newcomb and Frank Benford, is so ubiquitous and how it has been used to check for fraudulent...

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