- The special trick that helps identify dodgy stats: Using Benford's law, forensic statisticians can spot suspicious patterns in the raw numbers, and estimate the chances figures have been tampered with http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/sep/16/bad-science-dodgy-stats 46 comments science
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- Benford's law - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%27s_law 542 comments
- Posit | The Open-Source Data Science Company http://www.rstudio.org/ 185 comments
- Testing Benford's Law https://testingbenfordslaw.com/ 103 comments
- Look out for No. 1 | Tim Harford http://timharford.com/2011/09/look-out-for-no-1/ 26 comments
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