Natural spatial pattern—When mutual socio-geo distances between cities follow Benford’s law
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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0276450
Abstract: Benford’s law states that the first digits of numbers in any natural dataset appear with defined frequencies. Pioneering, we use Benford distribution to analyse the geo-location of cities and their population in the majority of… read more here.
Keywords: benford law; benford; geo; location cities ... See more keywords
Fraud Detection in Financial Statements Applying Benford's Law with Monte Carlo Simulation
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DOI: 10.1556/032.2019.69.2.4
Abstract: Benford's Law is a useful tool for detecting fraud in financial statements. In this paper we test the financial item named ‘Work performed by the undertaking for its own purpose and capitalised’ applying this tool.… read more here.
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Generalized Benford’s Law as a Lie Detector
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DOI: 10.5709/acp-0212-x
Abstract: The first significant (leftmost nonzero) digit of seemingly random numbers often appears to conform to a logarithmic distribution, with more 1s than 2s, more 2s than 3s, and so forth, a phenomenon known as Benford’s… read more here.
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