rbenf: Random Sample Satisfying Benford's Law
Description
Returns a random sample with length n satisfying Benford's law.Value
- Returns a random sample with length
n satisfying Benford's law.
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references{
Benford, F. (1938) The Law of Anomalous Numbers. emph{Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society}. bold{78}, 551--572.
}
author{
Dieter William Joenssen email{Dieter.Joenssen@googlemail.com}
}
seealso{
code{qbenf}; code{pbenf}
}
keyword{distribution}
keyword{datagen}
examples{
#Set the random seed to an arbitrary number
set.seed(421)
#Create a sample satisfying Benford's law
X<-rbenf(n=20)
#Look at sample
X
#should be
# [1] 6.159420 1.396476 5.193371 2.064033 7.001284 5.006184
#7.950332 4.822725 3.386809 1.619609 2.080063 2.242473 1.944697 5.460581
#[15] 6.443031 2.662821 2.079283 3.703353 1.364175 3.354136
Details
This distribution has the density:
$$f\left(x\right)=\frac{1}{x\cdot ln\left(10\right)} \forall x\in[1,10]$$