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Isn't Benford's law just a phenomenon that indicates fit to a power law distribution? I'm probably missing something, but why not just try to fit the data to a
by paulgb 9y ago
Isn't Benford's law just a phenomenon that indicates fit to a power law distribution? I'm probably missing something, but why not just try to fit the data to a power law and use the goodness of fit as the measure?
- corpMaverick 9y ago> sn't Benford's law just a phenomenon that indicates fit to a power law distribution? I think so. From the wikipedia article... > Benford's law tends to apply most accurately to data that are distributed uniformly across several orders of magnitude. In this case they are using the second-digit Benford's law. Which just makes it more mysterious. At least to me.