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Benford's Law IA


DragonBorn

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Hello, IB Survival People!

 

For some random reason I chose Benford's law as my IA exploration topic because it seemed interesting and sophisticated at first. However, now that I am working on it, and did a draft, I realized that it is easier than expected, and does not meet the "math standards" for a HL IA. I basically explained the probability of the leading digits appearing using a Logarithmic scale, and did some basic proofs using logs. What are some of the ways to increase the difficulty of the math for this topic? Can you suggest some areas of the law that I could explore further into? Do I apply things like central limit theorem? Or integrals to calculate the area under the graph? Some help pls! 

 

Many Thanks,

Another student being tortured by IB

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