pbenf: Probability Mass Function for Benford's Distribution
In BenfordTests: Statistical Tests for Evaluating Conformity to Benford's Law

Description Usage Arguments Details Value Author(s) References See Also Examples

Returns the complete probability mass function for Benford's distribution for a given number of first digits.

1	pbenf(digits = 1)

digits

An integer determining the number of first digits for which the pdf is returned, i.e. 1 for 1:9, 2 for 10:99 etc.

Benford's distribution has the following probability mass function:

P(d_k)=log_{10}≤ft(1+ d_k^{-1} \right)

where d_k \in ≤ft( 10^{k-1},10^{k-1}+1, …, 10^k-1 \right) for any chosen k number of digits.

Returns an object of class "table" containing the expected density of Benford's distribution for the given number of digits.

Dieter William Joenssen Dieter.Joenssen@googlemail.com

Benford, F. (1938) The Law of Anomalous Numbers. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. 78, 551–572.

Joenssen, D.W. (2013) Two Digit Testing for Benford's Law. Proceedings of the ISI World Statistics Congress, 59th Session in Hong Kong. [available under http://www.statistics.gov.hk/wsc/CPS021-P2-S.pdf]

qbenf; rbenf

1 2	#show Benford's predictions for the frequencies of the first digit values pbenf(1)

         1          2          3          4          5          6          7 
0.30103000 0.17609126 0.12493874 0.09691001 0.07918125 0.06694679 0.05799195 
         8          9 
0.05115252 0.04575749