Neat! Benford’s Law was the first topic I dove into in undergrad math that got a minor publication. Given how well known it is for forensic accounting I’ve always wanted to look into convictions and see if the “average” fraudster has wised up and produces more realistic distributions.
Neat! Benford’s Law was the first topic I dove into in undergrad math that got a minor publication. Given how well known it is for forensic accounting I’ve always wanted to look into convictions and see if the “average” fraudster has wised up and produces more realistic distributions.
i suppose that nowadays analysts have more sophisticated tests?
in any case, for any set of statistical tests, it's relatively trivial to produce data that passes all of them
I'd recommend allowing 2 digit exploration. I've used it in the past when analyzing hard drive failure logical block addresses.
benford's law is used to detect whether data is faked
in which ways would the list of hdd bad blocks be faked?
Interesting that it was first discovered with noticing the “garden path” in the front pages of a book of logarithm tables (in 1881).
It's interesting how all base 10 numbers identify as non binary
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