An Introduction to Statistics through Benford’s Law for Fraud Detection

If you’re wondering if there’s something a bit fishy about a dataset, but you don’t know where to start looking, you might get some relief from a weird quirk of numbers called Benford’s Law that’s ready to help in your search. Largely forgotten about for 80 years, it’s become a handy part of a fraud investigators toolkit in the last decade. Learn how to use it in your investigations, and pick up a brief introduction to using statistics at the same time.