Modern Benford's law : state of the art techniques for audit and compliance professionals /

"Benford's Law offers a powerful, data-driven approach to anomaly detection. Discovered 150 years ago, it wasn't until the 1990s that auditors began harnessing its potential for identifying irregularities in financial data. Today, the Benford's Law community spans a wide range of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McCarville, Daniel J. (Author)
Corporate Author: Taylor & Francis
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boca Raton : CRC Press, 2026.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Security, audit and leadership series
Subjects:
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • The story of Benford's law
  • The basics of Benford's law
  • Common results
  • with graphs
  • Advanced case study
  • Goodness-of-fit scores
  • Benford-like distribution
  • Finding high-risk groups
  • Time series applications
  • Benford's law and machine learning
  • Beyond base 10
  • Professional practice and Benford's law
  • Case study : IT incident management
  • Advanced case study.