Thermodynamics of Benford's first digit law

被引：4

作者：

Lemons, Don S. ^{[1
,2
]}

机构：

[1] Bethel Coll, North Newton, KS USA

[2] 116 Sereno Dr, Santa Fe, NM USA

来源：

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICS | 2019年 / 87卷 / 10期

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D O I：

10.1119/1.5116005

中图分类号：

G40 [教育学];

学科分类号：

040101 ; 120403 ;

摘要：

According to Benford's first digit law, the frequency of appearance of the first digit d taken from various sets of data is log(1+(1/d)) where d = 1, 2, horizontal ellipsis 9. I present a thermodynamic derivation of this law that follows from the unbiased partitioning of a conserved quantity whose pieces may fragment and combine.

引用

页码：787 / 790

页数：4

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