Hill, TP (2020)

A Widespread Error in the Use of Benford's Law to Detect Election and Other Fraud

Preprint arXiv:2011.13015 [math.PR]; posted November 25, 2020. Last accessed November 30, 2020.

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Abstract: The goal of this note is to show that a widespread claim about Benford's Law, namely, that the range of every Benford distribution spans at least several orders of magnitude, is false. The proof is constructive and concrete examples are presented.

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Bibtex:
@misc{, title={A Widespread Error in the Use of Benford's Law to Detect Election and Other Fraud}, author={Theodore P. Hill}, year={2020}, eprint={2011.13015}, archivePrefix={arXiv}, primaryClass={math.PR}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.13015}, }

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Reference Type: Preprint

Subject Area(s): General Interest, Probability Theory, Voting Fraud

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