Statistics: The Art and Science of Learning From Data, Books a la Carte Edition (4th Edition)
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Author: Alan Agresti, Christine A. Franklin, Bernhard Klingenberg
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 11, Problem 66CP
Benford’s Law When looking at a collection of numbers, such as population sizes, the figures on tax returns or the charges on a credit card, one may think that the leading digit of the number is equally likely to be any of the numbers from 1 to 9. However, such data sets often show a distribution for the leading digit that is quite different from uniform and is described by Benford’s Law. This law stipulates that the
- a. Find the expected counts, assuming the leading digits for the transactions follow Benford’s Law.
- b. Is there evidence that the distribution of the leading digit does not follow Benford’s Law? Write a conclusion based on an appropriate test. If available, use software to read in the raw data and compute the test statistic and P-value.
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