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Berton, L (1995)

He’s Got Their Number: Scholar Uses Math to Foil Financial Fraud

The Wall Street Journal, p. B1, July 10.

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Abstract: Mark Negrini, an assistant professor of accounting at St Mary's University in Halifax Nova Scotia, has developed a computer program that can detect financial frauds by using Benford's Law, which lays out the statistical frequency with which the numbers 1 through 9 appear in any set of random numbers.


Bibtex:
@misc{ AUTHOR = {Berton, L.}, TITLE = {He’s Got Their Number: Scholar Uses Math to Foil Financial Fraud}, JOURNAL = {The Wall Street Journal}, MONTH = {July 10}, YEAR = {1995}, PAGES = {B1}, }


Reference Type: Newspaper Article

Subject Area(s): General Interest