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On the authenticity of COVID-19 case figures

In this article, we study the applicability of Benford’s law and Zipf’s law to national COVID-19 case figures with the aim of establishing guidelines upon which methods of fraud detection in epidemiology, based on formal statistical analysis, can be developed. Moreover, these approaches may also be...

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Autores principales: Kennedy, Adrian Patrick, Yam, Sheung Chi Phillip
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7723280/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33290420
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0243123