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PHP Benford's Law: Detect the probability of fraud in a data set

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phpbenfordslaw 1.0.0Free for non-comm...7Algorithms, Finances, Security, PHP 7
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This class can detect the probability of fraud in a data set.

It takes an array with data set value and applies Benford's Law algorithm to detect the probability of possible financial fraud.

The class can return the results of the probability of fraud as a percentage in three considering three levels of accuracy: low, medium, and high.

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Fraud detection is critical to guarantee the security of transactions, especially when it involves financial values.

Benford's law can be applied to detect abnormal values in a data set that may contain financial values. This law can be used by analyzing the digits of a data set.

This package implements Benford's law in a PHP class. This way, PHP developers can apply it in applications to analyze values used in financial transactions to detect the probability of fraud quickly.

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Instructions

1) Preprocess the data you want to check as a CSV of numbers.

2) Pass this file as input to the class, and using Benford's Law, this would detect if the data is possibly fraudulent or not.

Example

<?php
require("PhpBenfordsLaw.inc.php");


//Pre process all thef inancial or statistical numbersand create one simple array

//Sample Data as Array
//$financial_and_or_statistical_numbers = [4634,45,45745,34,4845,54,45847,484578458,424122458,45854,7845845,8548,458,45845,12142,8451118458458458,45548,124214,35311253,5312,3734865797,1231321,1151,9808,56,6,435412,1215151];
//$financial_and_or_statistical_numbers = [54068, 62230, 13680, 51852, 58747, 78644, 64645, 49661, 55402, 21759, 74357, 58409, 23753, 13620, 51658, 22702, 29723, 18556, 35766, 51943, 54112, 78911, 21008, 32474, 40681, 27638, 19005, 19446, 29326, 54414, 76864, 73764, 31107, 79526, 11094, 32609, 18796, 35321, 11057, 33829, 50154, 35746, 35319, 77618, 26742, 44634, 10426, 40880, 27044, 29841, 54597, 62444, 38001, 27553, 18364, 18565, 63128, 42329, 43225, 48359, 66263, 66907, 16677, 56920, 34748, 34500, 25112, 16149, 33405, 25266, 29751, 37862, 18322, 55153, 48674, 18251, 22323, 84013, 64157, 24744, 65587, 52532, 28558, 68720, 38537, 21512, 49704, 22676, 63964, 14423, 78619, 23305, 31240, 75304, 38443, 29345, 33775, 20878, 24354, 25310, 15921, 59167, 92712, 13764, 13368, 56035, 18090, 16989, 70712, 77927, 32835, 39870, 25986, 37677, 56368, 18662, 38750, 42417, 63895, 49116, 38946, 52507, 18230, 14380, 82850, 16084, 11568, 48467, 57949, 25738, 13567, 44094, 20905, 27310, 63686, 16634, 22497, 30345, 44809, 25497, 30801, 73688, 87845, 29584, 42168, 17834, 61278, 74603, 14156, 28222, 11149, 64895, 34471, 48448, 63183, 17591, 60490, 23687, 75807, 76896, 22937, 22478, 14250, 22783, 59767, 55487, 60611, 78318, 56546, 30302, 58798, 24474, 30007, 54272, 24140, 57522, 25157, 66152, 88646, 22951, 23737, 34745, 25397, 38715, 28931, 29373, 66199, 56721, 15861, 21172, 38808, 35877, 71952, 54826, 68351, 59099, 55834, 11000, 10812, 36928, 26742, 53304, 44575, 46045, 32019, 29579, 44718, 35270, 15761, 47507, 22463, 67906, 13804, 71326, 75597, 24971, 15712, 16672, 45011, 49578, 88009, 27235, 65061, 43077, 19192, 37670, 56370, 19127, 52563, 48183, 38994, 16442, 39667, 18172, 10896, 27945, 38517, 21405, 36356, 19356, 33314, 29193, 28945, 17241, 51289, 22812, 24521, 15642, 58860, 85034, 25704, 57957, 75081, 43644, 10271, 19705, 12232, 44120, 44392, 74763, 77070, 46411, 59474, 51384, 43520, 52758, 30619, 42826, 68486, 52916, 29031, 21120, 22458, 28872, 70058, 35627, 54821, 39085, 17957, 41270, 16743, 28741, 18084, 20257, 32060, 11377, 25089, 94187, 75600, 17914, 10854, 26659, 68055, 69583, 29838, 11269, 36877, 35635, 34587, 52691, 28138, 47131, 44056, 25404, 57405, 65035, 16968, 10225, 40657, 57849, 28808, 53864, 63219, 38564, 44293, 28633, 39232, 34107, 32677, 71513, 45529, 83511, 19563, 15583, 29017, 66541, 24882, 26467, 68525, 15968, 16260, 81891, 46366, 65138, 57896, 31763, 55435, 13574, 39956, 16018, 64927, 38998, 21912, 74246, 18300, 40683, 46744, 37267, 19157, 66912, 70016, 58449, 55030, 17909, 17458, 86066, 11641, 63095, 68069, 60887, 19162, 35547, 44158, 66565, 43797, 83050, 68710, 47639, 34676, 28522, 89487, 31476, 11546, 48003, 16490, 35723, 38552, 33482, 68988, 31681, 13275, 12816, 20766, 71397, 68719, 28522, 69209, 52273, 17443, 22525, 26833, 76045, 17843, 79203, 32769, 73392, 54823, 17196, 71339, 45529, 15259, 51875, 40816, 24663, 37245, 14352, 42752, 17763, 47421, 52826, 57525, 36916, 22573, 25953, 84971, 25973, 13165, 23782, 88369, 12334, 75942, 30699, 55371, 38141, 40537, 16369, 50769, 36146, 35556, 16740, 40161, 36099, 29237, 68873, 11698, 22194, 73770, 35215, 34177, 21965, 38222, 76293, 57000, 29831, 58329, 23834, 28348, 91047, 52334, 29642, 17816, 12529, 89548, 18438, 37530, 30938, 17732, 39276, 71907, 66526, 40181, 41465, 83691, 66555, 24371, 68476, 62543, 38674, 20551, 28271, 80658, 45934, 28507, 62755, 19773, 75463, 13471, 35940, 12587, 69631, 25931, 29451, 32009, 70717, 19523, 82337, 29727, 45029, 20712, 68210, 68255, 81425, 33743, 47010, 13413, 50522, 66661, 88012, 70576, 45002];


//PARSE CSV as Array
//$financial_and_or_statistical_numbers = file_get_contents("trial_balance_1.csv");
//$financial_and_or_statistical_numbers = explode("\r\n",$financial_and_or_statistical_numbers);

//PARSE CSV as Array
//$financial_and_or_statistical_numbers = file_get_contents("financial_data.csv");
//$financial_and_or_statistical_numbers = explode("\r\n",$financial_and_or_statistical_numbers);

$financial_and_or_statistical_numbers = file_get_contents("population_data.csv");
$financial_and_or_statistical_numbers = explode("\r\n",$financial_and_or_statistical_numbers);



$phpBenfordsLaw = New PhpBenfordsLaw($financial_and_or_statistical_numbers);


//Only for checking logic for small data
//$phpBenfordsLaw->debug();

$result = $phpBenfordsLaw->get_result("L");
echo
"<hr /> <pre> Benford's Law RESULT = "; print_r($result);
?>


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Plain text file PhpBenfordsLaw.inc.php Class Main Class
Accessible without login Plain text file example.php Example example file
Accessible without login Plain text file financial_data.csv Data Sample data
Accessible without login Plain text file population_data.csv Aux. Sample data of Population
Accessible without login Plain text file trial_balance_1.csv Aux. Sample data of trial balance

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