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- Applying Benford’s Law for Assessing the Validity of Social Science Data
- Applying Benford’s Law for Assessing the Validity of Social Science Data
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 Validity and Self-Reported Data
- Chapter 3 Benford’s Law and Assessing Conformity
- Chapter 4 Data Characteristics and the Workflow of Benford Agreement Analysis
- Chapter 5 Benford Agreement Analysis of the Sea Around Us Project’s Fish-Landings Data
- Chapter 6 Benford Agreement Analysis of US and Global COVID-19 New Cases Data
- Chapter 7 Assessing the Impacts of Problematic Benford Validity
- Chapter 8 Conclusion
- References
- Index
Chapter 6 - Benford Agreement Analysis of US and Global COVID-19 New Cases Data
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 November 2023
- Applying Benford’s Law for Assessing the Validity of Social Science Data
- Applying Benford’s Law for Assessing the Validity of Social Science Data
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 Validity and Self-Reported Data
- Chapter 3 Benford’s Law and Assessing Conformity
- Chapter 4 Data Characteristics and the Workflow of Benford Agreement Analysis
- Chapter 5 Benford Agreement Analysis of the Sea Around Us Project’s Fish-Landings Data
- Chapter 6 Benford Agreement Analysis of US and Global COVID-19 New Cases Data
- Chapter 7 Assessing the Impacts of Problematic Benford Validity
- Chapter 8 Conclusion
- References
- Index
Summary
Chapter 6 provides a second empirical example of the Benford agreement procedure: here we analyze new daily COVID-19 cases at the US state level and at the global level across nations. Both the state-level and the global analyses consider time as a variable. Specifically we examine, (1) for the United States, new reports of COVID-19 between January 22, 2020 and November 16, 2021 at the state level, and (2) for the cross-national data, new reports of COVID-19 between February 24, 2020 and January 13, 2022. At the state level, we report Benford agreement analyses for (1) the full dataset, (2) cases grouped alphabetically, (3) cases grouped regionally, (4) cases grouped by days of the week, and (5) cases grouped by their governor’s party (Republican or Democratic). We then turn our Benford agreement analysis to global cross-national COVID-19 data to assess whether Benford agreement of COVID-19 varies across countries.
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023