Newcomb–Benford law helps customs officers to detect fraud in international trade

A naive approach to flagging potential misuse or manipulation of data using the Newcomb-Benford law (NBL) is the following: under the premise that a particular dataset conforms to a specific theoretical distribution (NBL or other variants of the law; e.g., the second leading digit), the strategy is...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS 2019-01, Vol.116 (1), p.11-13
1. Verfasser:	Lacasa, Lucas
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Commentaries COMMENTARY Data processing Datasets Fraud International trade Physical Sciences Probability Social Sciences
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