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Benford's law in the natural sciences

Date

Authors

Sambridge, Malcolm

Tkalčić, Hrvoje

Jackson, A.

Publisher

American Geophysical Union

Abstract

More than 100 years ago it was predicted that the distribution of first digits of real world observations would not be uniform, but instead follow a trend where measurements with lower first digit (1,2,) occur more frequently than those with higher first

Keywords

Keywords: Benford's law; Earth's gravity; Exo-planets; Infectious disease; Rotation frequencies; Seismic energy; Seismic structure; World Health Organization; Earthquakes; Gas emissions; Geophysics; Natural sciences; Geomagnetism; data set; earthquake; geophysical

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1885/34086

Collections

ANU Research Publications

Source

Geophysical Research Letters

Type

Journal article

DOI

10.1029/2010GL044830

Restricted until

2037-12-31

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