Benfordness of Measurements Resulting from Box Fragmentation
Probability
2023-04-18 v1
Abstract
We make progress on a conjecture made by [DM], which states that the -dimensional frames of -dimensional boxes resulting from a fragmentation process satisfy Benford's law for all . We provide a sufficient condition for Benford's law to be satisfied, namely that the maximum product of sides is itself a Benford random variable. Motivated to produce an example of such a fragmentation process, we show that processes constructed from log-uniform proportion cuts satisfy the maximum criterion for .
Cite
@article{arxiv.2304.08335,
title = {Benfordness of Measurements Resulting from Box Fragmentation},
author = {Livia Betti and Irfan Durmić and Zoe McDonald and Jack B. Miller and Steven J. Miller},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.08335},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
13 pages, 3 figures, to be submitted to the Journal of Statistical Theory and Practice