A multivariate test for detecting fraud based on Benford's law, with application to music streaming data

DOI10.1007/s10260-021-00582-6zbMath1479.60031OpenAlexW3186068795MaRDI QIDQ2062333

Nermina Mumic, Peter Filzmoser

Publication date: 27 December 2021

Published in: Statistical Methods and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10260-021-00582-6

zbMATH Keywords

Benford's lawfraud detectioncompositional datamultivariate testing

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to economics (62P20) Hypothesis testing in multivariate analysis (62H15) Probability distributions: general theory (60E05)

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Forum on Benford's law and statistical methods for the detection of frauds

Uses Software

• benford.analysis

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