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Noun Concept
Categories: Statistical laws, Theory of probability distributions, All Wikipedia articles written in American English
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Benford's law  Benfords law  Benford’s Law  First digit law  First Digit Phenomenon
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A law used by auditors to identify fictitious populations of numbers; applies to any population of numbers derived from other numbers WordNet 3.0
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A law used by auditors to identify fictitious populations of numbers; applies to any population of numbers derived from other numbers WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
Benford's law, also known as the Newcomb–Benford law, the law of anomalous numbers, or the first-digit law, is an observation that in many real-life sets of numerical data, the leading digit is likely to be small. Wikipedia
Observation about the frequency distribution of leading digits in many real-life sets of numerical data Wikidata
A law concerning the frequency distribution of digits in much real-world data, where the number 1 occurs as the leading digit about 30% of the time, and the expected distribution for digits beyond the first approaches a uniform distribution. Wiktionary
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Benford's law holds that 30% of the time the first non-zero digit of a derived number will be 1 and it will be 9 only 4.6% of the time WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
IS A
law
guidepost
empirical law
probability distribution
NAMED AFTER
Frank Benford
USE
detection
USED BY
fraud prevention
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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Benford's law
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Benford's law
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Benford's law
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Benford's law
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Anomalous number, Benford's curve, Benford's Law, Benford's rule, Benford distribution, Benford Effect, Benford law, Benfords Law, Benfords law, Benfords rule, Benford’s law, Benford’s Law, first-digit law, First-digit rule, First Digit Law, First digit law, First digit phenomenon, First Digit Phenomenon, First digit rule, Law of Anomalous Numbers, Law of first digits, Newcomb-Benford's law, Newcomb-Benford's Law, Newcomb-Benford law, Newcomb-Benford Law, Newcomb-Benford’s Law, Newcomb-Benford’s law, Tabulation paradox
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first-digit law, law of anomalous numbers, Newcomb-Benford's law, Newcomb–Benford law

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