Patterns in data ...

[Jim Cheetham]

An interesting article from Nature, talking about analysing data used in
published scientific articles to reveal ... well, sometimes to reveal
fraudulent papers. Sadly there hasn't been an easy way to publish raw data
for studies.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02241-z

"it’s simply that real-life data have natural patterns that artificial data
struggle to replicate. Such phenomena were spotted in the 1880s, were
popularized by the US electrical engineer and physicist Frank Benford in
1938, and have since been used by many statistical checkers."
http://datacolada.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/4409-Benford-1938-Law-of-anomalous-numbers.pdf

-jim
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