Schraepler, Joerg-Peter - In: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer … 231 (2011) 5-6, pp. 685-718
This paper focuses on fraud detection in surveys using Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) data as an example for testing newlymethods proposed here. A statistical theoremreferred to as Benford’s Law states that in many sets of numerical data, the significant digits are not uniformly distributed, as...