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Tag Archives: Tests of Significance
Benford’s Law and US Census Data, Part II
The Benford’s law is a probability model that is a powerful tool for detecting frauds and data irregularity. The first digit (or leading digit) of a number is the leftmost digit and can only be 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, … Continue reading
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Tagged Alternative Hypothesis, Benford's Law, Chi-square goodness of fit, Chi-square statistic, Chi-square test, Introduction to statistics, Introductory statistics, Null Hypothesis, p-value, Statistical Inference, Tests of Significance
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