Elementary Statistics
Elementary Statistics
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ISBN: 9780321836960
Author: Mario F. Triola
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 11.2, Problem 23BSC

Benford’s Law. According to Benford’s law, a variety of different data sets include numbers with leading (first) digits that follow the distribution shown in the table below. In Exercises 21–24, test for goodness-of-fit with the distribution described by Benford’s law.

Leading Digit 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Benford’s Law: Distribution of Leading Digits 30.1% 17.6% 12.5% 9.7% 7.9% 6.7% 5.8% 5.1% 4.6%

23. Tax Cheating? Frequencies of leading digits from IRS tax files are 152, 89, 63, 48, 39, 40, 28, 25, and 27 (corresponding to the leading digits of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9, respectively, based on data from Mark Nigrini, who provides software for Benford data analysis). Using a 0.05 significance level, test for goodness-of-fir with Benford’s law. Does it appear that the tax entries are legitimate?

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