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Benfords law regarding election data needs to use the second digit analysis #30

Open tehmikey opened 3 years ago

tehmikey commented 3 years ago

Benford's first-digit analysis is intended to be used on data with several orders of magnitude, and hundreds of votes per precinct over hundreds of counties is not sufficient. For detecting voter fraud, you need to use the second-digit analysis.

The data presented in this project do not properly apply the law and are misleading.

https://repository.library.georgetown.edu/bitstream/handle/10822/557850/Brown_georgetown_0076M_11716.pdf https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/political-analysis/article/benfords-law-and-the-detection-of-election-fraud/3B1D64E822371C461AF3C61CE91AAF6D https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%27s_law#Election_data

charlesmartin14 commented 3 years ago

This has been discussed, at length, in the open issues.