Digital Analysis of Crime Statistics: Does Crime Conform to Benford’s Law?

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Benford’s law suggests that the distribution of leading (leftmost) digits in data of an anomalous nature (i.e., without relationship) will conform to a formula of logarithmic intervals known as the Benford distribution. Forensic auditors have successfully used digital analysis vis-à-vis the Benford...

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Bibliographic Details
Authors: Hickman, Matthew J. (Author) ; Rice, Stephen K. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2010
In: Journal of quantitative criminology
Year: 2010, Volume: 26, Issue: 3, Pages: 333-349
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Keywords:
Benford distribution
Fraud detection
Crime Data
First digit
Data errors
Fabricated data
Crime Statistics
Digital analysis
Uniform Crime Reports
Benford’s law
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