• DOI:10.1080/00031305.2000.10474554
Corpus ID: 122607770

Survival Distributions Satisfying Benford's Law

@article{Leemis2000SurvivalDS,
  title={Survival Distributions Satisfying Benford's Law},
  author={Lawrence M Leemis and B. W. Schmeiser and D. Evans},
  journal={The American Statistician},
  year={2000},
  volume={54},
  pages={236 - 241}
}

Lawrence M Leemis, B. W. Schmeiser, D. Evans

Published 2000

Mathematics

The American Statistician

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Abstract Hill stated that “An interesting open problem is to determine which common distributions (or mixtures thereof) satisfy Benford's law …”. This article quantifies compliance with Benford's law for several popular survival distributions. The traditional analysis of Benford's law considers its applicability to datasets. This article switches the emphasis to probability distributions that obey Benford's law.