China: Baking the numbers with Benford ANZ casts doubts over China's official data and analyses it with a fraud detection formula developed by twentieth century physicist Frank Albert Benford.
It’s no secret that China's official economic data can induce an educated reader to raise the proverbial eyebrow from time to time.
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