Benford's Law
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1 min readJan 17, 2019
It’s also called
Newcomb-Benford's Law,Law of Anomalous Numbers, andFirst-Digit Law.
It is an observation about the frequency distribution of leading digits in many real-life sets of numerical data.
The first digits of data entries in most real-world data sets are not uniformly distributed. The most common first digit is 1, followed by 2, and so on, with 9 being the least common first digit. This phenomenon is known as Benford's Law.
The leading digits in such a set thus have the following distribution:
