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Benfordness of Measurements Resulting from Box Fragmentation

Authors :
Betti, Livia
Durmić, Irfan
McDonald, Zoe
Miller, Jack B.
Miller, Steven J.
Publication Year :
2023

Abstract

We make progress on a conjecture made by [DM], which states that the $d$-dimensional frames of $m$-dimensional boxes resulting from a fragmentation process satisfy Benford's law for all $1 \leq d \leq m$. We provide a sufficient condition for Benford's law to be satisfied, namely that the maximum product of $d$ sides is itself a Benford random variable. Motivated to produce an example of such a fragmentation process, we show that processes constructed from log-uniform proportion cuts satisfy the maximum criterion for $d=1$.<br />Comment: 13 pages, 3 figures, to be submitted to the Journal of Statistical Theory and Practice

Details

Database :
arXiv
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.2304.08335
Document Type :
Working Paper