BENFORD: Stata module to test Benford's Law on a variable

Nikos Askitas ()

Statistical Software Components from Boston College Department of Economics

Abstract: benford reads in the values of a variable and returns a 4 column table: Column 1 contains the digits 1 through 9, column 2 contains the total number of values in the variable starting with that digit, Column 3 contains the percentage Column 2 represents and Column 4 is what benfords law expects. So the closer Columns 3 and 4 are the more your numbers conform to Benford's law.

Language: Stata
Requires: Stata version 8
Keywords: Benford's Law; randomness (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007-04-10, Revised 2007-05-23
Note: This module should be installed from within Stata by typing "ssc install benford". The module is made available under terms of the GPL v3 (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt). Windows users should not attempt to download these files with a web browser.
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