Douglas Winslow Cooper*

Douglas Winslow Cooper, PhD, LLC, Walden, NY, USA

*Corresponding Author: Douglas Winslow Cooper, Douglas Winslow Cooper, PhD, LLC, Walden, NY, USA.

Received: January 02, 2024; Published: May 15, 2024

Abstract

Viewing an extensive data set, you wonder whether to trust it. A simple method for checking a theory's or experiment's results as a first step in its evaluation is usually less costly than attempting replication.

Keywords: Benford’s Law; Logarithm; Zipf’s Law

References

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Citation

Citation: Douglas Winslow Cooper. “Are those Data Real? Benford’s Law". Acta Scientific Applied Physics 4.1 (2024): 20-22.

Copyright

Copyright: © 2024 Douglas Winslow Cooper. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.