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can you apply Benford's law to only 130 samples?? that's not a large set of data according to my book

As I read it, they examined 130 different time series. The article did not say how many observations were in the sample for each time series.

"They looked at 130 different values per country and year", they don't say how many years were studied but I assume the greece book fixing lasted only a few years so we are looking at ~500 samples. I honestly don't know if that's enough or not, on wikipedia they show examples of the distribution on less than 100 samples so I guess I'm on the wrong.

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