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MAD.conformity

MAD conformity to Benford's Law using the MAD

This function checks the MAD agains the confomity criteria proposed by Nigrini (2012).

MAD.conformity(MAD = NULL, digits.used = c("First Digit",
  "Second Digit", "First-Two Digits", "First-Three Digits"))

`MAD`	The mean absolute deviation, as computed in the function `benford`
`digits.used`	How many digits used in the analysis.

A list with the MAD, digits.used and the conformity level.

Nigrini, M. J. (2012). Benford's Law: Application for Forensic Accounting, Auditing and Fraud Detection. Wiley and Sons: New Jersey.

Benford Analysis for Data Validation and Forensic Analytics

v0.1.5

GPL-3

Authors

Carlos Cinelli

Initial release