Chase Davis: Applying Benford’s Law to CAR
Monday, 13 October 2008, 07:54 via Delicious/martinstabe
"In case you missed it at IRE Miami this year, Phil Meyer and Steve Doig put on a great panel about techniques reporters could and should be applying, but, for whatever reason, are not. One of the techniques Meyer mentioned is known as Benford's Law -- a decades-old mathematical rule that forensic accountants have recently used to spot fraud by examining the distribution of individual digits in large dataset..." Read More...
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