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-- Benford's law on SO

SELECT firstDigit,
       COUNT(*) [Count],
       convert(decimal(5,2),100.0*COUNT(*)/SUM(COUNT(*)) OVER ()) Percentage,
       Benford.p Law
FROM
(
    SELECT LEFT(LEN(post.Body),1) as firstDigit
    FROM Posts as post
) [ ]
inner join
(   values
    (1, 30.1),   (2, 17.6),   (3, 12.5),
    (4, 9.7),    (5, 7.9),    (6, 6.7),
    (7, 5.8),    (8, 5.1),    (9, 4.6)
) Benford(d,p) on Benford.d = [ ].firstDigit
GROUP BY firstDigit, Benford.p
Order by firstDigit

fork query

created feb 17 11 cyberkiwi2010