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...Kimberly Benford Johns, a teacher who benefited from the subsidy, said that it saved her from “having to take valuable resources from [her] family to compensate for rising gas and housing prices”....
.... -- In a parallel universe, the Trump side is putting its faith in Benford’s law, computer glitches and illegal votes by non-citizens and dead people. -- Also, the idea there’s a secret vote-rigging algorithm...
...The FT analysis also found no significant evidence that the data deviated from Benford’s law, a statistical test commonly used in fields such as forensic accounting to identify fraudulent data....
...The German bank’s model used “Benford’s Law” to identify possible irregularities....
...It also lets auditors test for Benford’s law, which states that the distribution of first digits is highly skewed in many kinds of data, with 1 being the most common digit and 9 the least....
...The test statistics indicate a nonconformity to Benford’s Law....
...“Whether the changes will go ahead will be a matter of politics, the constitution and EU law,” notes Jonathan Benford of Dixon Wilson, a Paris-based tax expert....
...This test, also known as Benford’s Law, is a means of testing the randomness of figures....
...Manipulated data often fail to satisfy Benford’s Law....
...Elsewhere on Wednesday, - Benford’s Law meets corporate America; horror ensues. - The case for sovereign CoCos. - Volcker rule found living inside bid-ask spreads. - Presenting…. CLO 2.0....
...- Benford’s Law and US accounting worries. - (Some of) Buffett’s tax details. - John Cassidy isn’t impressed by Thomas Sargent’s Nobel. - Daniel Kahneman has a new book coming out....
...- Benford’s Law tours the Eurozone. - Sino-Forest, the back story. - Further, further reading....
...Kerry Benford is proof that these programmes can succeed. She was inspired to study IT after joining the CC4G scheme run by her school at age 13....
...Up-and-comers (Hannu Rajaniemi, David Moles) rub shoulders with old lags (Stephen Baxter, Gregory Benford), and there’s a strong showing from female authors....
...FBI agent Mark Benford (Joseph Fiennes), sees a future self that is desperate, pursued, his alcoholism returned....
...Forensic accountants use a similar method – known as Benford’s law – to identify potential accountancy fraud....
...Benford’s law? - A Minnie-Mouse bank? ___...
...One such pattern is Benford’s Law, first noted by the astronomer Simon Newcomb in 1881, and then independently by the physicist Frank Benford in 1938....
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