| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Noun | 1. A law used by auditors to identify fictitious populations of numbers; applies to any population of numbers derived from other numbers; "Benford's law holds that 30% of the time the first non-zero digit of a derived number will be 1 and it will be 9 only 4.6% of the time".[Wordnet]. | |
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Common Expressions: BENFORD'S LAW
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Benford's law | A law used by auditors to identify fictitious populations of numbers; applies to any population of numbers derived from other numbers; "Benford's law holds that 30% of the time the first non-zero digit of a derived number will be 1 and it will be 9 only 4.6% of the time". Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Benford's law of controversy | Passion is inversely proportional to the amount of real information available. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: BENFORD'S LAW
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Benford's law | Math | On a wide variety of statistical data, the first digit is d with the probability log10 (1 + 1/d). (references) | |
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