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Benford's law conformity tests for all crypto currencies in the time frame 2009 (START) - 2018

Year: 2021

Type: article

Abstract: Benford's law, also known as the first-digit law, has been widely used to test for anomalies in various data ranging from accounting fraud detection, stock prices, house prices to electricity bills, population numbers, natural phenomena, death rates and recently so popular COVID-19 cases reports. DataHub cryptocurrency datasets (https://datahub.io/cryptocurrency) was used as a source for daily aggregated data about all transactions on all crypto coin networks from the first mined block on the Bitcoin network till the end of the 2018. The presented dataset is a collection of Benford's law conformity tests for all cryptocurrencies in the observed time-frame.

Source: Repository of the University of Primorsk (University of Primorska)

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4682975

Authors: Vičič, Jernej, Tošić, Aleksandar

Institution: University of Primorska

Language: English

Topic: Benford’s Law and Fraud Detection

Subfield: Statistics and Probability

Field: Mathematics

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funder: European Commission

Award: Renewable materials and healthy environments research and innovation centre of excellence