Testing firm-level data quality in China against Benford's law

DOI10.1016/J.ECONLET.2020.109182zbMath1443.62466OpenAlexW3022275414MaRDI QIDQ777712

Zhiyong Niu, Yasheng Huang, Clair Yang

Publication date: 7 July 2020

Published in: Economics Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2020.109182

zbMATH Keywords

ChinaBenford's lawdata quality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to economics (62P20) Nonparametric hypothesis testing (62G10) Foundations and philosophical topics in statistics (62A01)

Cites Work

• A statistical derivation of the significant-digit law
• Benford's Law
• Quick anomaly detection by the Newcomb-Benford law, with applications to electoral processes data from the USA, Puerto Rico and Venezuela

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