Products of random variables and the first digit phenomenon

Abstract

We provide conditions on dependent and on non-stationary random variables Xn ensuring that the mantissa of the sequence of products (Π1nXk) is almost surely distributed following the Benford's law or converges in distribution to the Benford's law.

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