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Chapter 7 - Assessing the Impacts of Problematic Benford Validity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2023

Michael A. Long ,
Paul B. Stretesky ,
Kenneth J. Berry ,
Janis E. Johnston  and
Michael J. Lynch
Michael A. Long
Affiliation:
Oklahoma State University
Paul B. Stretesky
Affiliation:
Northumbria University, Newcastle
Kenneth J. Berry
Affiliation:
Colorado State University
Janis E. Johnston
Affiliation:
USDA
Michael J. Lynch
Affiliation:
University of South Florida
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Chapter 7 takes a closer look at some of the Sea Around Us fish-landings data that we assessed for Benford agreement in Chapter 5. We chose these data because of the mixed agreement findings among them: while the full dataset and several sets of subgroups indicated that the data exhibited Benford validity, when we analyzed West African countries individually, a number of them were found to have unacceptable Benford agreement and therefore problematic Benford validity. We present ways in which researchers can assess the impact of unacceptable Benford agreement on their analyses.

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Benford’s lawdiagnosticsproblematic Benford validity
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Applying Benford's Law for Assessing the Validity of Social Science Data , pp. 169 - 187
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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