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Benford's law : theory and applications /

"Benford's law states that the leading digits of many data sets are not uniformly distributed from one through nine, but rather exhibit a profound bias. This bias is evident in everything from electricity bills and street addresses to stock prices, population numbers, mortality rates, and...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Miller, Steven J., 1974- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2015]
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505 0 |a pt. I. General theory I : basis of Benford's law -- A quick introduction to Benford's law -- A short introduction to the mathematical theory of Benford's law -- Fourier analysis and Benford's law -- pt. II. General theory II : distributions and rates of convergence -- Benford's law geometry -- Explicit error bounds via total variation -- Lévy processes and Benford's law -- pt. III. Applications I : accounting and vote fraud -- Benford's law as a bridge between statistics and accounting -- Detecting fraud and errors using Benford's law -- Can vote counts' digits and Benford's law diagnose elections? -- Complementing Benford's law for small N : a local bootstrap -- pt. IV. Applications II : economics -- Measuring the quality of European statistics -- Benford's law and fraud in economic research -- Testing for strategic manipulation of economic and financial data -- pt. V. Applications III : sciences -- Psychology and Benford's law -- Managing risk in numbers games : Benford's law and the small-number phenomenon -- Benford's law in the natural sciences -- Generalizing Benford's law : a reexamination of falsified clinical data -- pt. VI. Applications IV : images -- Partial volume modeling of medical imaging systems using the Benford distribution -- Application of Benford's law to images -- pt. VII. Exercises -- Exercises. 
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