getSuspects: Gets the 'suspicious' observations according to Benford's Law

In benford.analysis: Benford Analysis for Data Validation and Forensic Analytics

Description

It gets the original data from the 'suspicious' digits groups according to benford analysis.

Usage

getSuspects(bfd, data, by="absolute.diff", how.many=2)

Arguments

bfd	an object of class "Benford". See benford.
data	the original data used for the benford analysis.
by	a character string selecting how to order the digits.It can be 'abs.excess.summation','difference','squared.diff' or'absolute.diff'.
how.many	how many groups of digits to get.

Value

The 'suspicious' observations from the original data.

Examples

data(lakes.perimeter) #gets data
lk <- benford(lakes.perimeter[,1]) #generates benford object
suspects <- getSuspects(lk, lakes.perimeter)

Example output

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