Benford's law for DEM quality assessment
Benford’s law, also called the Newcomb–Benford law, the law of anomalous numbers, or the first-digit law, is an observation about the frequency distribution of leading digits (first digits) in many real-life sets of numerical data. The law states that in many naturally occurring collections of numbers, the leading digit is likely to be small. In sets that obey the law, the number 1 appears as the leading significant digit about 30 % of the time, while 9 appears as the leading significant digit less than 5 % of the time. If the digits were distributed uniformly, they would each occur about 11.1% of the time. Benford’s law also makes predictions about the distribution of second digits, third digits, digit combinations, and so on …
Inspired by : Polidori, L.; El Hage, M. Application de la Loi de Benford AU Contrôle de Qualité Des Modèles Numériques de Terrain. Revue XYZ 2019, 158, 19–22.
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