Social polarization is a growing concern worldwide, as it strains social relations, erodes trust
in institutions, and thus hurts democratic societies. Polarization has been traditionally …

The contrast of fraud in international trade is a crucial task of modern economic regulations.
We develop statistical tools for the detection of frauds in customs declarations that rely on …

In many European countries, people increasingly leave rural or small municipalities to live
and work in urban or metropolitan environments. Although previous work on the 'left …

Benford's Law is a statistical regularity of a large number of datasets; assessing the
compliance of a large dataset with the Benford's Law is a theme of remarkable relevance …

Benford's law defines a probability distribution for patterns of significant digits in real
numbers. When the law is expected to hold for genuine observations, deviation from it can …

The last decade has witnessed an explosion on the computational power and a parallel
increase of the access to large sets of data–the so called Big Data paradigm–which is …

Understanding where and why political change is happening in a country is a fundamental
issue in political geography. While electoral choice is individual, it is influenced by various …

En los últimos años, los partidos políticos se han lanzado a por el voto de la llamada
España vacía. Una parte de España, donde la despoblación reciente ha sido acusada …

The Benford hypothesis is the statement that a random sample is made of realizations of an
absolutely continuous random variable distributed according to Benford's law. Its potential …

The Newcomb–Benford law states that in a set of natural numbers, the leading digit has a
probability distribution that decays logarithmically. One of its major applications is the JPEG …