Country Data and Benford's Law

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Benford's law, also called the first digit law, states that in lists of numbers from many sources of data, the leading digit is 1 almost one-third of the time. Moreover, subsequent values appear first with decreasing frequency; 9 occurs as a leading digit only one time in twenty. Many types of numerical data about countries approximately follow this law. This Demonstration shows the distributions of various types of numeric country data.
Contributed by: Hector Zenil (April 2007)
Based on work by: Jason Cawley and others
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA
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Published: April 27 2007