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On the Mistaken Use of the Chi-Square Test in Benford’s Law

On the Mistaken Use of the Chi-Square Test in Benford’s Law

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On the Mistaken Use of the Chi-Square Test in Benford’s Law

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On the Mistaken Use of the Chi-Square Test in Benford’s Law

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Basel: MDPI AG

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Stats (Basel, Switzerland), 2021-06, Vol.4 (2), p.419-453

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English

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Basel: MDPI AG

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Benford’s Law predicts that the first significant digit on the leftmost side of numbers in real-life data is distributed between all possible 1 to 9 digits approximately as in LOG(1 + 1/digit), so that low digits occur much more frequently than high digits in the first place. Typically researchers, data analysts, and statisticians, rush to apply th...

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On the Mistaken Use of the Chi-Square Test in Benford’s Law

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TN_cdi_doaj_primary_oai_doaj_org_article_e6501d00f8584dccaff31c5311c3c70b

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_doaj_primary_oai_doaj_org_article_e6501d00f8584dccaff31c5311c3c70b

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2571-905X

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2571-905X

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10.3390/stats4020027

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