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Chi-square test

Definition

A goodness-of-fit test comparing the observed digit frequencies in a dataset to the expected Benford frequencies, producing a test statistic that is compared against a critical value at a chosen significance level.

Related terms

Benford's Law
The empirical observation that in naturally occurring numerical data spanning multiple orders of magnitude, the leading digit d appears with probability log10(1...
Mean Absolute Deviation (MAD)
A practical Benford conformity measure that averages the absolute differences between observed and expected proportions across all leading digits, with Nigrini benchmarks...
Second-digit test
Analysis of the second significant digit in isolation, where 0 is expected to appear about 11.97% of the time. A spike in...
Two-digit test
An extension of Benford's Law to the first two significant digits, producing 90 possible combinations each with a predicted frequency, which is...
Z-statistic
A per-digit test that calculates whether the deviation between an observed frequency and the Benford expected frequency for that single digit is...

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  • Benford's Law and Digital AnalysisA goodness-of-fit test comparing the observed digit frequencies in a dataset to the expected Benford frequencies, producing a test statistic that is compared a...

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