Benford's Law and Possibilities for Its Use in Governmental Statistics

Benford's Law (sometimes also called Benford's Distribution or Benford's Test) is one of the possible tools for verification of a data structure in a given file regarding the relative frequencies of occurrence of the fi rst (or second, etc.) digit from the left. If it is used as a goo...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Richard Hindls, Stanislava Hronová
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Czech Statistical Office 2015-06-01
Series:Statistika: Statistics and Economy Journal
Subjects:
Online Access:https://www.czso.cz/documents/10180/20550317/32019715q2054.pdf/ab281a2e-6a14-44c6-972a-be1d5fefd026?version=1.0