The First Digit 1
| dc.contributor.author | Srivastava, Tanya Kaushal | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-12-11T07:01:42Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-12-11T07:01:42Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2013 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Benford’s Law or The First Digit Law as it is commonly known has been a fascination to many generations. This counter-intuitive law proposes that given a sequence of numbers (usually from a data set like length of rivers, height of mountains, populations of nations or any source of data from real life), the first digit is ‘1’ roughtly 30% of the time. Many mathematical sequences, such as Fibonacci sequences also follow Benford’s Law. Benford’s Law has some interesting applications, especially in fraud detection! | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Resonance, 18(12), pp.1073-1085. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.other | 10.1007/s12045-013-0135-y | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12045-013-0135-y | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/3040 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Springer Link | en_US |
| dc.subject | Numbers | en_US |
| dc.subject | Benford’s Law | en_US |
| dc.subject | Height of mountains | en_US |
| dc.title | The First Digit 1 | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |