Benford's Law gains its power with larger numbers, and I started my Benford's law project in the shortest month. I don't think these things through, do I? But you have to start somewhere.
The 28 daily news articles contained 436 numbers written as digits (~15 per day).
3 and 7 are found pretty much exactly as often as expected. 1 is over represented.
If you add together the sum of all the values of (observed-expected)squared, all divided by the expected, the calculated test statistic is 8.6.
The critical chi squared value for 9 items with only one line is ~ 15.507
The test statistic smaller than the critical value therefore the difference is not significant. This data does not disobey Benford's Law.*
*That noise is L shouting "obey is the word you want" but to me there's a difference between 'stats show x' and 'stats show not x' and to me, these show 'do not disobey'.
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