Schräpler, Jörg-Peter - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 231 (2011) 5-6, pp. 685-718
Summary This paper focuses on fraud detection in surveys using Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) data as an example for testing newly methods proposed here. A statistical theorem referred to as Benford’s Law states that in many sets of numerical data, the significant digits are not uniformly...