Frank Benford

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Frank Albert Benford Jr. (July 10, 1883 – December 4, 1948) 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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