
arXiv: 1609.04106
According to Benford's Law, many data sets have a bias towards lower leading digits (about 30% are 1's). The applications of Benford's Law vary: from detecting tax, voter and image fraud to determining the possibility of match-fixing in competitive sports. There are many common distributions that exhibit such bias, i.e. they are almost Benford. These include the exponential and the Weibull distributions. Motivated by these examples and the fact that the underlying distribution of factors in protein structure follows an inverse gamma distribution, we determine the closeness of this distribution to a Benford distribution as its parameters change.
Poisson summation, Probability (math.PR), Central limit and other weak theorems, Exact distribution theory in statistics, 60F05, 11K06 (primary), 60E10, 42A16, 62E15, 62P99 (secondary), Characteristic functions; other transforms, Fourier coefficients, Fourier series of functions with special properties, special Fourier series, digit bias, inverse gamma distribution, FOS: Mathematics, Benford's law, Mathematics - Probability
Poisson summation, Probability (math.PR), Central limit and other weak theorems, Exact distribution theory in statistics, 60F05, 11K06 (primary), 60E10, 42A16, 62E15, 62P99 (secondary), Characteristic functions; other transforms, Fourier coefficients, Fourier series of functions with special properties, special Fourier series, digit bias, inverse gamma distribution, FOS: Mathematics, Benford's law, Mathematics - Probability
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