File:Benfords law illustrated by world's countries population.svg

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Illustration of Benford's law, using the population of the countries of the world.

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English: illustration of Benford's law, using the population of the countries of the world.

The chart depicts the percentage of countries having the corresponding digit as first digit of their population (red bars). For example, 64 countries of 237 (=27%) have 1 as leading digit of the population. Black points indicate what is predicted by Benford's law.

the data is from CIA Worldbook https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2119rank.html, accessed August 07, 2010

R Source:

beside = barplot(c(64,43,24,31,15,20,17,11,12)/2.37, names.arg=1:9, ylim=c(0,32), space=NULL, col="pink") ; points(beside, 100*(log(2:10, 10) - log(1:9, 10)), pch=19)
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current00:08, 26 July 2022Thumbnail for version as of 00:08, 26 July 2022768 × 576 (10 KB)Smasongarrison (talk | contribs)shrunk down, and changed plot to soft red to closer match the file it's replacing // Editing SVG source code using c:User:Rillke/SVGedit.js
02:17, 8 July 2020Thumbnail for version as of 02:17, 8 July 2020720 × 540 (20 KB)Melikamp (talk | contribs)Uploaded own work with UploadWizard

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