Testing firm-level data quality in China against Benford's law

DOI10.1016/J.ECONLET.2020.109182MaRDI QIDQ777712zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yasheng Huang, Zhiyong Niu, Clair Yang

Publication date 7 July 2020

Published in Economics Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2020.109182

zbMATH Keywords

Benford's lawChinadata quality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foundations and philosophical topics in statistics (62A01) Nonparametric hypothesis testing (62G10) Applications of statistics to economics (62P20)

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