The First Digit Phenomenon: A century-old observation about an unexpected pattern in many numerical tables applies to the stock market, census statistics and accounting data

Author Info

• Theodore P. Hill, Georgia Institute of Technology

Recommended Citation

Postprint version. Published in American Scientist, Volume 86, Issue 4, July 1, 1998, pages 358-363.

The definitive version is available at https://doi.org/10.1511/1998.31.815.

Copyright

© 1998 Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society

Number of Pages

6