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| | Georgia Tech School of Mathematics: Seminars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | A random variable is called digit-regular base b if the probability that the k-th digit (base b) is a given digit d approaches 1/b for all d in {0,1,...,b-1} (where b is the base, an integer >1), and more generally, if the probability of every k-tuple of given digits approaches 1/b^k. |
 | | The discussion will include necessary and sufficient conditions for digit-regularity in terms of convergence in distribution and in terms of characteristic functions, and the relationships between digit-regularity and continuity, normality, and distributions whose Fourier coefficients vanish at infinity. |
 | | The related concepts for significant-digit-regularity and strong digit-regularity will be mentioned, including, as a simple corollary, a Law of Least Significant Digits, a counterpart to Benford's law, which helps justify the assumption of asymptotic uniformity of final digits in classical statistical tests for fraud. |
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