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18 Nov, 5 tweets, 7 min read
#blogpost | Benford's law application to India's district-level #COVID19 data suggests that the quality of data is largely acceptable for decision making. (Data from
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Read the analysis by @HAdarkar and Sridhar Ganapathy here: idfcinstitute.org/blog/2020/nove…
Also check out our earlier thread explaining Benford's law and why it matters here:
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