Frank Benford

American electrical engineer & physicist best known for rediscovering Benford's Law (1883-1948) · United States · On the map · Scientists · Died at 65

Frank Albert Benford Jr. was an American electrical engineer and physicist best known for rediscovering and generalizing Benford's law, an earlier statistical statement by Simon Newcomb, about the occurrence of digits in lists of data.

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