Random-Number Guessing and the First Digit Phenomenon¶
Hill. (1988). Random-Number Guessing and the First Digit Phenomenon.
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- Benford's Law
- The forensic application exploits a systematic human failure: people inventing numbers cannot reproduce the Benford curve — in Hill's 1988 random-number guessing experiments the leading digits of made-up six-digit numbers were not uniform at all but leaned the Benford way, digit 1 appearing far more often and digits 8 and 9 far less often than an even spread would give, while the second digits came out much more uniformly distributed than the first — so fabricated records depart detectably from the expected digit frequencies in a way that flags them for deeper investigation
This sourceTurning that gap into an audit test is Nigrini's work, not Hill's.
- The forensic application exploits a systematic human failure: people inventing numbers cannot reproduce the Benford curve — in Hill's 1988 random-number guessing experiments the leading digits of made-up six-digit numbers were not uniform at all but leaned the Benford way, digit 1 appearing far more often and digits 8 and 9 far less often than an even spread would give, while the second digits came out much more uniformly distributed than the first — so fabricated records depart detectably from the expected digit frequencies in a way that flags them for deeper investigation
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