Chapter 11: Measuring the Quality of European Statistics (Rauch, Göttsche, Brähler and Engel)

• Additional Reading:
  • W. Cho, B. Gaines, Breaking the (Benford) Law: Statistical Fraud Detection in Campaign Finance, The American Statistician, Volume 61, Issue 3, 2007, 218--223. Available online here.
  • G. Judge and L. Schechter, Detecting Problems in Survey Data Using Benford's Law. The Journal of Human Resources, Vol. 44, Issue 1, 2009,1-24. Available online here.
  • L. Leemis, B. Schmeiser, D. Evans, Survival Distributions Satisfying Benford's Law, The American Statistician, Volume 54, Issue 4, 2000, 236--241. Available online here.
  • B. Rauch, M. Göttsche, G. Brähler, and S. Engel, Fact and Fiction in EU-Governmental Economic Data, German Economic Review 2011, 243--255. Available online here.
  • B. Rauch, M. Göttsche, G. Brähler, and T. Kronfeld, Deficit versus social statistics: empirical evidence for the effectiveness of Benford's law, Applied Economics Letters, Volume 21, Issue 3, 2014, 147--151.  See http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13504851.2013.844319#.U5TGjShSm6U .
• Homework Problems:
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  • Excel files needed for Chapter 11 Problems: data for country A    data for country B
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