Using the Benford's law as a first step to assess the quality of a Cancer Registry data

• Autori principali: Emanuele Crocetti (Autore), Giorgia Randi (Autore)
• Natura: Libro
• Pubblicazione: Frontiers Media S.A., 2016-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Soggetti: article
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Background: Benford's law states that the distribution of the first digit different from zero (first significant digit, FSD) in many collections of numbers is not uniform. The aim of this study is to evaluate whether population-based cancer incidence rates follow Benford's law, and if this...