On the Peculiar Distribution of the U.S. Stock Indexes' Digits
作者:
Eduardo Ley,
期刊:
The American Statistician
(Taylor Available online 1996)
卷期:
Volume 50,
issue 4
页码: 311-313
ISSN:0003-1305
年代: 1996
DOI:10.1080/00031305.1996.10473558
出版商: Taylor & Francis Group
关键词: Benford's law;Dow-Jones Index;Standard and Poor's.
数据来源: Taylor
摘要:
Recent research has focused on studying the patterns in the digits of closely followed stock market indexes. In this paper we find that the series of 1-day returns on the Dow-Jones Industrial Average Index (DJIA) and the Standard and Poor's Index (S&P) reasonably agrees with Benford's law and therefore belongs to the family of anomalous or outlaw numbers.
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