TY - JOUR AU - Rebecca F. Durst AU - Chi Huynh AU - Adam Lott AU - Steven J. Miller AU - Eyvindur A. Palsson AU - Wouter Touw AU - Gert Vriend PY - 2020/06/30 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - The Inverse Gamma Distribution and Benford's Law JF - The PUMP Journal of Undergraduate Research JA - PUMP J. Undergrad. Res. VL - 3 IS - 0 SE - Articles DO - 10.46787/pump.v3i0.2409 UR - https://journals.calstate.edu/pump/article/view/2409 AB - According to Benford's Law, many data sets have a bias towards lower leading digits (about 30% are 1's). The applications of Benford's Law vary: from detecting tax, voter and image fraud to determining the possibility of match-fixing in competitive sports. There are many common distributions that exhibit such bias, i.e. they are almost Benford.These include the exponential and the Weibull distributions. Motivated by these examples and the fact that the underlying distribution of factors in protein structure follows an inverse gamma distribution, we determine the closeness of this distribution to a Benford distribution as its parameters change. ER -