Combining Benford's Law and machine learning to detect money laundering. An actual Spanish court case.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2017.11.008
Abstract: OBJECTIVES This paper is based on the analysis of the database of operations from a macro-case on money laundering orchestrated between a core company and a group of its suppliers, 26 of which had already… read more here.
Keywords: machine learning; money; case; benford law ... See more keywords
Benford's Law for Quality Assurance of Manner of Death Counts in Small and Large Databases
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DOI: 10.1111/1556-4029.13437
Abstract: To assess if Benford's law, a mathematical law used for quality assurance in accounting, can be applied as a quality assurance measure for the manner of death determination. We examined a regional forensic pathology service's… read more here.
Keywords: death; law; manner death; benford law ... See more keywords
Can we rely on COVID-19 data? An assessment of data from over 200 countries worldwide
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DOI: 10.1177/00368504211021232
Abstract: To fight COVID-19, global access to reliable data is vital. Given the rapid acceleration of new cases and the common sense of global urgency, COVID-19 is subject to thorough measurement on a country-by-country basis. The… read more here.
Keywords: covid data; law; rely covid; benford law ... See more keywords
Do Countries Consistently Engage in Misinforming the International Community about Their Efforts to Combat Money Laundering? Evidence Using Benford’s Law
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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0169632
Abstract: Indicators of compliance and efficiency in combatting money laundering, collected by EUROSTAT, are plagued with shortcomings. In this paper, I have carried out a forensic analysis on a 2003–2010 dataset of indicators of compliance and… read more here.
Keywords: international community; money; benford law; manipulation ... See more keywords
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.
Keywords: second digit; benford; financial statements; benford law ... See more keywords
Reliability of Financial Information from the Perspective of Benford’s Law
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DOI: 10.3390/e23050557
Abstract: This study investigates the conformity to Benford’s Law of the information disclosed in financial statements. Using the first digit test of Benford’s Law, the study analyses the reliability of financial information provided by listed companies… read more here.
Keywords: reliability financial; information; benford law; financial information ... See more keywords
Benford's law in medicinal chemistry: Implications for drug design.
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DOI: 10.4155/fmc-2019-0006
Abstract: Aim: The explosion of data based technology has accelerated pattern mining. However, it is clear that quality and bias of data impacts all machine learning and modeling. Results & methodology: A technique is presented for… read more here.
Keywords: medicinal chemistry; chemistry; benford law; law medicinal ... See more keywords
Benford's Law can detect malicious social bots
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DOI: 10.5210/fm.v24i8.10163
Abstract: Social bots are a growing presence and problem on social media. There is a burgeoning body of work on bot detection, often based in machine learning with a variety of sophisticated features. In this paper,… read more here.
Keywords: detect malicious; law; law detect; benford law ... See more keywords
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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