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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[2015]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.