Sentence examples for distribution of digits from inspiring English sources

-- he found a highly abnormal distribution of digits.

The reprimand has hit a nerve among those in the political world who feed on poll numbers, prompting intense scrutiny of everything from the distribution of digits in the company's poll results to its claim that it is based in Atlanta.

Birth weights were recorded with a 1 g resolution and the number of measurements with each of the possible 100 last two digits was determined and displayed graphically along with the observed/expected ratio based on a uniform distribution of digits.

8 It was postulated that there were subsets of observations which were then rounded to the nearest 100, 50, 20, 10, 5 or 2 which gives an expected distribution of digits as a function of the proportion rounded to each level of accuracy.

The distribution of digit sucking differed significantly between the two groups.

As described in our previous work [29], [35], analysis of hand kinematics focuses on the spatial distribution of digit contact points as defined by the marker placed on the center of each fingernail.

For leading digits, Benford's law (i.e., that the distribution of first digits follows a logarithmic pattern, with probability decreasing from 0 to 9) is usually observed.

This is Benford's law: the distribution of leading digits follows a logarithmic distribution, so you get a "one" most commonly, appearing as first digit around 30% of the time, and a nine as first digit only 5% of the time.

So there's no difference in the distribution of first digits that an enterprising student can exploit.

Silver thought that, given the wide range of poll topics, the distribution of trailing digits should be more or less random.

That's possible because the distribution of first digits in a company's accounts turns out to follow Benford's law.