Application of Benford-Newcomb Law with Base Change to Electoral Fraud Detection

Autor:	Eduardo Gueron, Jerônimo Pellegrini
Rok vydání:	2022
Předmět:	Statistics and Probability FOS: Computer and information sciences 62P25 History Polymers and Plastics Statistical and Nonlinear Physics Applications (stat.AP) Business and International Management Statistics - Applications Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
Zdroj:	SSRN Electronic Journal.
ISSN:	1556-5068
DOI:	10.2139/ssrn.4193402
Popis:	The invariance of Benford-Newcomb law under base changing is employed to test whether or not some data follow such distribution. Taking into account the Brazilian senate election in 1994, changes in the numerical base were able to evidence probable fraud. Comment: 12 pages, 4 figures
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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