TY - JOUR T1 - Benford’s law in relation to terminal digit preference JF - Journal of Clinical Pathology JO - J Clin Pathol SP - 575 LP - 576 VL - 62 IS - 6 AU - S J Hayes Y1 - 2009/06/01 UR - http://jcp.bmj.com/content/62/6/575.2.abstract N2 - I read with interest the article by Beer,1 describing a proposed application of Benford’s law, in relation to pathological measurement and terminal digit preference. Benford’s law, also called the first-digit law, states that in lists of numbers from many real-life sources of data, the leading digit can be distributed uniformly in a logarithmic scale.2 3Beer’s article relates to recent publications, assessing pathological measurement, stating that … ER -