On Fri, 13 Nov 2020 19:02:19 -0800 Jeff Newmiller <jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote:
> It was explained in the video... his counts were so small that they > spanned the 1-9 and 10-99 ranges. Sorry, missed that. I'll have to watch the video again. Thanks. cheers, Rolf > > On November 13, 2020 6:59:49 PM PST, Rolf Turner > <r.tur...@auckland.ac.nz> wrote: > > > >On Thu, 12 Nov 2020 01:23:06 +0100 > >Martin Møller Skarbiniks Pedersen <traxpla...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> Please watch this video if you wrongly believe that Benford's law > >> easily can be applied to elections results. > >> > >> https://youtu.be/etx0k1nLn78 > > > >Just watched this video and found it to be delightfully enlightening > >and entertaining. (Thank you Martin for posting the link.) > > > >However a question springs to mind: why is it the case that Trump's > >vote counts in Chicago *do* seem to follow Benford's law (at least > >roughly) when, as is apparently to be expected, Biden's don't? > > > >Has anyone any explanation for this? Any ideas? ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
