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Neat! Benford’s Law was the first topic I dove into in undergrad math that got a minor publication. Given how well known it is for forensic accounting I’ve alwa
by yellow_postit 2mo ago
Neat! Benford’s Law was the first topic I dove into in undergrad math that got a minor publication. Given how well known it is for forensic accounting I’ve always wanted to look into convictions and see if the “average” fraudster has wised up and produces more realistic distributions.
- cwmoore 2mo agoCould look up convictions and see how any county courthouse delivers sentences, Bendord’s Law isn’t just for accounting, it’s for anything numeric.
- nextaccountic 2mo agoi suppose that nowadays analysts have more sophisticated tests? in any case, for any set of statistical tests, it's relatively trivial to produce data that passes all of them