Applying Benford's Law for assessing the validity of social science data /

Applying Benford's Law for assessing the validity of social science data / Michael A. Long, Oklahoma State University, Paul B. Stretesky, Northumbria University, Kenneth J. Berry, Colorado State University, Janis E. Johnston, USDA, Michael J. Lynch, University of South Florida.

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"Benford's Law is a probability distribution for the likelihood of the leading digit in a set of numbers. This book seeks to improve and systematize the use of this in the social sciences to assess the validity of self-reported data, using a new measure of conformity to the Benford distrib...

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Main Authors: Long, Michael A. (Author), Stretesky, Paul B. (Author), Berry, Kenneth J. (Author), Johnston, Janis E., 1957- (Author), Lynch, Michael J. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2024.
Subjects:
Social sciences > Statistical methods.
Distribution (Probability theory)
Quantitative research > Evaluation.
Sciences sociales > Méthodes statistiques.
Distribution (Théorie des probabilités)
Recherche quantitative > Évaluation.
distribution (statistics-related concept)

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