While Business Intelligence (BI) initiatives have been a top-priority of CIOs around the world for several years, accounting for billions of USD of IT investments per annum (IDC), academic research on the actual benefits derived from BI tools and the drivers of these benefits remain sparse. This...

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 distributed, as...

Die Coronakrise hat den Bedarf an schnell verfügbaren Daten zur Beschreibung der aktuellen wirtschaftlichen Lage stark ansteigen lassen. Dazu zählen auch Informationen zu kurzfristigen Entwicklungen auf dem Arbeitsmarkt. Das Statistische Bundesamt befasst sich bereits seit einiger Zeit damit,...