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Robust inference under Benford's law
Lucio Barabesi, Andrea Cerioli, Andrea Cerasa, Domenico Perrotta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08650 https://

Robust inference under Benford's law
We address the task of identifying anomalous observations by analyzing digits under the lens of Benford's law. Motivated by the crucial objective of providing reliable statistical analysis of customs declarations, we answer one major and still open question: How can we detect the behavior of operators who are aware of the prevalence of the Benford's pattern in the digits of regular observations and try to manipulate their data in such a way that the same pattern also holds after data fabricatio…