Benford’s law and the quality of data (Poster)
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The distribution of the leading digits in data sets will be influenced by the method used to substitute values below the limits of detection (LOD). If values below the LOD are substituted by a single value, for example LOD/√(2) (Hornung and Reed 1990), all these data points will have one single leading digit. Fig. 2 shows the influence of such a substitution if 30% of the values are below the LOD.
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