An empirical non-parametric likelihood family of data-based Benford-like distributions
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2007.02.062
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Benford's law; First significant digit phenomenon; Relative frequencies; Information-theoretic method; Empirical likelihood; Minimum-divergence distance measure;All these keywords.
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