When working for the Brooklyn district attorney, investigator Robert Burton analyzed the leading digits of the amounts

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When working for the Brooklyn district attorney, investigator Robert Burton analyzed the leading digits of the amounts from 784 checks issued by seven suspect companies. The frequencies were found to be 0, 15, 0, 76, 479, 183, 8, 23, and 0, and those digits correspond to the leading digits of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9, respectively. If the observed frequencies are substantially different from the frequencies expected with Benford’s law, the check amounts appear to result from fraud. Use a 0.01 significance level to test for goodness-of-fit with Benford’s law. Does it appear that the checks are the result of fraud?

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Mathematical Interest Theory

ISBN: 9781470465681

3rd Edition

Authors: Leslie Jane, James Daniel, Federer Vaaler

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