“‘we take the police reports, look at how well they follow Benford's law over time, and we see it going up and down… a two-week span where it hit zero…’”

Daniel McCarville · The Audit Podcast · Ep 297: Benford's Law w/ Daniel McCarville

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calculate a monthly Benford conformity score for police-report data and monitor the time series for sudden drops

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