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http://dx.doi.org/10.5351/KJAS.2009.22.3.553

Numbers in the Internet Web and Benford's Law  

Jang, Dae-Heung (Division of Mathematical Sciences, Pukyong National University)
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The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics / v.22, no.3, 2009 , pp. 553-568 More about this Journal
Abstract
Using the information about the frequency of occurrence of numbers in WWW, we can find properties of the array of numbers and validate whether this array satisfies the several laws(Power law, Zipf's law, Benford's law).
Keywords
WWW; World-Wide Web; power law; Zipf's law; Benford's law;
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