Benford’s Law: a Surprising Approach to Detecting Fraud and Uncovering Patterns in Data

A bar chart illustrating Benford's Law by showing a distribution of first digits. Each bar represents a digit, and the height of the bar is the percentage of numbers that start with that digit. For instance 1 occur as the first digit 30% of the time, while 9 only 4% of the time.

Benford's Law, also called the law of anomalous numbers, is a probability distribution which states that the first digit of a number drawn randomly from a large and varied population is likely to be 1, followed by 2, 3, and so on. The probability of each digit decreases as the digit value increases. Read on to learn more.

02/06/2023 0

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