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Randomness through computation
A few months ago, I received a puzzling advertising for this book, Randomness through Computation, and I eventually ordered it, despite getting a rather negative impression from reading the chapter wr… more →
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Following Benford's Law
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Benford's Law and fraud in the Russian election
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wrote 2 months ago: Earlier today Ben Goldacre posted about using Benford’s Law to try and detect fraud in the Rus … more →
Benford's Law
wrote 5 months ago: Benford’s Law seems to hold true on a macro level. This is of course based on Google’s c … more →
Greece: wishful thinking or fraud?
wrote 6 months ago: Every forensic accountant knows Benford’s Law. It says that in any naturally occurring set of … more →
Better Fraud Please
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wrote 7 months ago: According to a Benford’s Law analysis, corporate fraud has been trending steadily upwards for … more →
Benford's Law and Banks
wrote 7 months ago: Jialan Wang of Washington University in St. Louis has written a fascinating post about Benford … more →
The Decreasing Reliability of Accounting Data for US Firms
wrote 7 months ago: This post is rather technical, but it indicates the corporations routinely cook their books and that … more →
You couldn't make it up
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wrote 8 months ago: One method that can sometimes be applied to a set of numbers to see if they are genuine or made up i … more →
How an arcane statistical law could have prevented the Greek disaster
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wrote 10 months ago: The EU can use a mathematical law as an early warning system for manipulated macroeconomic data, wri … more →
Randomness through computation
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wrote 11 months ago: A few months ago, I received a puzzling advertising for this book, Randomness through Computation, a … more →
11:11, Synchronicities and Evidence of Intelligent Design
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wrote 1 year ago: About two weeks ago I think, while looking up more information on Srinivasa Ramanujan, a super math … more →
Benford process tends to minimize product
wrote 1 year ago: Consider the simple question, what is the largest product of two numbers that can be formed using al … more →
Fraud Detection By The Numbers
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wrote 1 year ago: By Terence Craig Mary mentioned our new fraud detection capabilities in her last post. Our primary … more →
Dial-a-statistic! Featuring R and Estonia
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wrote 1 year ago: Did you wake up this morning hoping that you would be able to listen to telephone beeps inspired by … more →
tech review: pinboard.in
wrote 1 year ago: At the end of November I finally decided to revive my del.icio.us account. I figured the winter brea … more →
The Ashes: cricket ruled by Benford's law
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wrote 1 year ago: England celebrate in front of the 'barmy army' after retaining the Ashes for the first tim … more →
Benford's Law and Ordnance Surveys Address Point data
wrote 1 year ago: I wanted to check Benford’s Law fo a long time now, and finally got the time to do it using th … more →
Eric A. Brill's Arguments
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wrote 1 year ago: I have foretold the final result of last year’s presidential election in Iran already early in May 2 … more →
BEYES AND BENFORD
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wrote 1 year ago: I was reminded today of a couple of ideas that had (and still have) a profound impact on my thinking … more →
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