This section will offer descriptions as weil as discussions of data sources that may be of
interest to social scientists engaged in empirical research or teaching courses that include …

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Rainer Schnell Methoden standardisierter Befragungen 2. Auflage Studienskripten zur …

Contrary to intuition, first digits of randomly selected data are not uniformly distributed but
follow a logarithmically declining pattern, known as Benford's law. This law is increasingly …

Digits in statistical data produced by natural or social processes are often distributed in a
manner described by 'Benford's law'. Recently, a test against this distribution was used to …

To detect manipulations or fraud in accounting data, auditors have successfully used
Benford's law as part of their fraud detection processes. Benford's law proposes a …

Calculating a reliability coefficient is simple; assessing the quality and comparability of data
is a Herculean task. It is well known that survey data are plagued with non-substantive …

We investigate whether Benford's Law can be used to differentiate retracted academic
papers that have employed fraudulent/manipulated data from other academic papers that …

Survey data are potentially affected by cheating interviewers. Even a small number of
fabricated interviews might seriously impair the results of further empirical analysis. Besides …

While many factors, such as unit-and item nonresponse, threaten data quality, we focus on
data contamination that arises primarily from task simplification processes. We argue that …

Identifying illicit behavior in survey research is inherently problematic, since self-reports are
untrustworthy. We argue that fraudulent interviewers can, however, be identified through …