摘要翻译：
本福德定律指出，在来自不同现象的数据集中，前导数字往往是按对数分布的，因此以较小数字开头的数字比以较大数字开头的数字出现的频率更高。特别是，众所周知，该法律适用于不同类型的金融数据。流出发展中国家的非法资金流动经常被讨论为隐藏的资源，否则本可以适当地用于发展中国家的发展。本文研究了IFFs估计的最新数据中前导位数的分布，以寻找Benford定律所预测的模式的存在，并证明这些估计中前导位数的出现频率与该规律密切相关。
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英文标题：
《The leading digit distribution of the worldwide Illicit Financial Flows》
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作者：
Tariq Ahmad Mir
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最新提交年份：
2012
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分类信息：

一级分类：Physics        物理学
二级分类：Physics and Society        物理学与社会
分类描述：Structure, dynamics and collective behavior of societies and groups (human or otherwise). Quantitative analysis of social networks and other complex networks. Physics and engineering of infrastructure and systems of broad societal impact (e.g., energy grids, transportation networks).
社会和团体（人类或其他）的结构、动态和集体行为。社会网络和其他复杂网络的定量分析。具有广泛社会影响的基础设施和系统（如能源网、运输网络）的物理和工程。
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一级分类：Physics        物理学
二级分类：Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability        数据分析、统计与概率
分类描述：Methods, software and hardware for physics data analysis: data processing and storage; measurement methodology; statistical and mathematical aspects such as parametrization and uncertainties.
物理数据分析的方法、软硬件：数据处理与存储；测量方法；统计和数学方面，如参数化和不确定性。
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一级分类：Quantitative Finance        数量金融学
二级分类：General Finance        一般财务
分类描述：Development of general quantitative methodologies with applications in finance
通用定量方法的发展及其在金融中的应用
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英文摘要：
  Benford's law states that in data sets from different phenomena leading digits tend to be distributed logarithmically such that the numbers beginning with smaller digits occur more often than those with larger ones. Particularly, the law is known to hold for different types of financial data. The Illicit Financial Flows (IFFs) exiting the developing countries are frequently discussed as hidden resources which could have been otherwise properly utilized for their development. We investigate here the distribution of the leading digits in the recent data on estimates of IFFs to look for the existence of a pattern as predicted by Benford's law and establish that the frequency of occurrence of the leading digits in these estimates does closely follow the law.
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PDF链接：
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1201.3432