• Media type: E-Book; Report
  • Title: Regularity of Digits and Significant Digits of Random Variables
  • Contributor: Hill, Theodore P. [Author]; Schürger, Klaus [Author]
  • imprint: Bonn: University of Bonn, Bonn Graduate School of Economics (BGSE), 2004
  • Language: English
  • Keywords: normal numbers ; digit-regular random variable ; significant-digit-regular random variable ; Benford's law ; significant digits
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  • Description: A random variable X is digit-regular (respectively, significant-digit-regular) if the probability that every block of k given consecutive digits (significant digits) appears in the b-adic expansion of X approaches b &supk; as the block moves to the right, for all integers b > 1 and k ? 1. Necessary and sufficient conditions are established, in terms of convergence of Fourier coefficients, and in terms of convergence in distribution modulo 1, for a random variable to be digit-regular (significant-digit regular), and basic relationships between digit-regularity and various classical classes of probability measures and normal numbers are given. These results provide a theoretical basis for analyses of roundoff errors in numerical algorithms which use floating-point arithmetic, and for detection of fraud in numerical data via using goodness-of-fit of the least significant digits to uniform, complementing recent tests for leading significant digits based on Benford's law.
  • Access State: Open Access