Benford's law and Theil transform of financial data

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 391, Issue 24, 2012, Pages 6556-6567

  Clippe, Paulette ^a,b   Ausloos, Marcel ^a,b  

^a Résidence Beauvallon   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Benford's laws; Expenses; Income; Religious community; Theil map; Time series

Indexed keywords

FINANCE; LINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS; METADATA; TIME SERIES;

BENFORD'S LAW; EXPENSES; FINANCIAL REPORTS; INCOME; LOG TRANSFORMATION; NON-LINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS; RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES; RELIGIOUS GROUPS;

MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS;

EID: 84865862391     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2012.07.063     Document Type: Article

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