Benford's Law Random Number Generator

Version 1.0.1.0 (3.82 KB) by Jan Zdenek
Pseudo-random number generator that generates sets of numbers which conform to Benford's Law
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This function generates arrays of pseudo-random numbers which conform to Benford's Law.
Benford's Law refers to the frequency of first digits in numerical datasets from natural real-life sources, such as populations of cities and heights of mountains. According to this law, 1 is the first digit in about 30% of the time and 9 is the first digit only in about 5% of the dataset values. The values from real-life datasets have to spread across multiple, preferrably at least 3 orders of magnitude to fit the distribution well.

Cite As

Jan Zdenek (2024). Benford's Law Random Number Generator (https://github.com/janzd/BenfordRNG), GitHub. Retrieved .

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Version Published Release Notes
1.0.1.0

added function for calculating frequencies of first digits
1.0.0.0

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