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Benfordness of Measurements Resulting from Box Fragmentation
- Publication Year :
- 2023
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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
- Subjects :
- Mathematics - Probability
60A10, 11K06 (primary), 60E10 (secondary)
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- Database :
- arXiv
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- edsarx.2304.08335
- Document Type :
- Working Paper