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most citedBenford's law predicted digit distribution of aggregated income taxes: the surprising conformity of Italian cities and regions

45 citations · 152 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

q-fin.ST2018

Data on the annual aggregated income taxes of the Italian municipalities over the quinquennium 2007-2011

Marcel Ausloos, Roy Cerqueti, Tariq A. Mir

This dataset contains the annual aggregated income taxes of all the Italian municipalities over the years 2007-2011. Data are clustered over the Italian regions and provinces. The…

q-fin.ST2017★ 36 cited

Data science for assessing possible tax income manipulation: The case of Italy

Marcel Ausloos, Roy Cerqueti, Tariq A. Mir

This paper explores a real-world fundamental theme under a data science perspective. It specifically discusses whether fraud or manipulation can be observed in and from municipalit…

cs.DL2017★ 18 cited

Benford's law: a 'sleeping beauty' sleeping in the dirty pages of logarithmic tables

Tariq Ahmad Mir, Marcel Ausloos

Benford's law is an empirical observation, first reported by Simon Newcomb in 1881 and then independently by Frank Benford in 1938: the first significant digits of numbers in large…

cs.DL2016★ 2 cited

Citations to articles citing Benford's law: a Benford analysis

Tariq Ahmad Mir

The occurrence of first significant digits of numbers in large data is often governed by a logarithmically decreasing distribution called Benford's law (BL), reported first by S. N…

physics.soc-ph2014★ 45 cited

Benford's law predicted digit distribution of aggregated income taxes: the surprising conformity of Italian cities and regions

Tariq Ahmad Mir, Marcel Ausloos, Roy Cerqueti

The yearly aggregated tax income data of all, more than 8000, Italian municipalities are analyzed for a period of five years, from 2007 to 2011, to search for conformity or not wit…

physics.soc-ph2014★ 30 cited

The Benford law behavior of the religious activity data

Tariq Ahmad Mir

An important aspect of religious association is that adherents, as part of their religious duty, carry out various activities. One religious group known for keeping the elaborate r…