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Accountability in Research
Ethics, Integrity and Policy
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Terminal Digits and the Examination of Questioned Data

Pages 75-92 | Published online: 08 Sep 2010

  • Mosimann , J. E. and Ralnaparkhi , M. V. 1996 . "Uniform occurrence of digits for folded and mixture distributions on finite intervals," . Communications in Statistics , 25 ( 2 ) : 481 – 506 . Among other issues, this paper discusses approximations to con- A theoretical discussion is found in
  • Mosimann , J. E. , Wiseman , C. V. and Edelman , R. E. 1995 . "Data fabrication: Can people generate random digits?" . Accountability in Research , 4 : 31 – 55 . This study shows that many people have difficulty fabricating random digits, even when trying to do so
  • Mosimann , J. E. 1963 . "On the compound negative multinomial distribution and correlations among inversely sampled pollen counts," . Biometrika , 50 : 47 – 54 . "Inverse" sampling until a certain number of a particular event occurs has a long history, particularly where rare events are to be studied. (For example, see
  • Dwyer , Paul S. 1951 . "It is conventional to round off to the nearest even digit when the number to be rounded is exactly half way between two successive digits." ” . In Linear Compulations , 13 – 14 . John Wiley & Sons, Inc. . (See also the next two footnotes.)
  • 1997 . "PowerBASIC always rounds towards the closest even number. For example, both 1.5 and 2.5 would be rounded to 2. This is called banker's rounding…." ” . In User's Guide , 169 i – vi . 1 – 318 . Carmel, California : PowerBASIC, Inc. 316 Mid Valley Center .

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