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Fig. 2 | Research Integrity and Peer Review

Fig. 2

From: Investigating and preventing scientific misconduct using Benford’s Law

Fig. 2

Benford’s Law tests for articles 1 & 2. Distribution of digit value frequencies for the 1st (left panels) and second (right panels) digit positions of data from datasets of animal personality measures, taken from research articles retracted for suspicions of data fabrication, with 95% Sison & Glaz confidence intervals represented by the dashed lines. Dots represent the Benford expected frequency of digits, whilst the solid line represents the observed frequency. Top 2: Article 1. Bottom 2: Article 2

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