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Benford's Law gains its power with larger numbers, and I started my Benford's law project in the shortest month. I don't think these things through, do I? But you have to start somewhere.
The 28 daily news articles contained 436 numbers written as numbers (~15 per day).
3 and 7 are found pretty much exactly as often as expected. 1 is over represented. If you add together the sum of all the values of (observed-expected)squared, all divided by the expected, the calculated test statistic is 8.6.
The critical chi squared value for 9 items with only one line is ~ 15.507
The test statistic smaller than the critical value therefore the difference is not significant. This data does not disobey Benford's Law.
The 28 daily news articles contained 436 numbers written as numbers (~15 per day).
3 and 7 are found pretty much exactly as often as expected. 1 is over represented. If you add together the sum of all the values of (observed-expected)squared, all divided by the expected, the calculated test statistic is 8.6.
The critical chi squared value for 9 items with only one line is ~ 15.507
The test statistic smaller than the critical value therefore the difference is not significant. This data does not disobey Benford's Law.
