Re: st: RE: Benford's Law

["Michael Levitan" <michael.levitan@villanova.edu>]

Al,

    Thanks so much for your quick and excellent response.

                      Michael

FEIVESON, ALAN H. (AL) (JSC-SK311) (NASA) wrote:

> If your "entry" is a real number not begining with "." or "-" you can do
>
> gen k = real(substr(string(x),1,1) 
> Al Feiveson
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> [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Michael Levitan
> Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 8:08 AM
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> Subject: st: Benford's Law
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> Hi,
>
>    Does anyone have an easy way to identify the leading digit for each
> entry in a diverse data set other than a series of inequality filters?
>
>                         Thanks,
>                         Michael
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