How I tested the Hungarian Election for fraud using Benford’s law

I tested several datasets using Benford’s law and learned about the advantages and pitfalls.

I recently stumbled upon a concept called Benford’s law. I was listening to a danish podcast — and the host introduced the concept that if you sum up the first digit of each number in a dataset, the occurrence of each digit should follow a certain distribution. This, he …

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