Methodological Artefacts, Data Manipulation and Fraud in Economics and Social Science : : Themenheft 5+6/Bd. 231(2011) Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik / / ed. by Andreas Diekmann.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Business and Economics 2000-2014 (EN)
• MitwirkendeR: Alfarano, Simone,; Arminger, Gerhard,; Auspurg, Katrin,; Bauer, Johannes,; Brühn, Tim,; Coutts, Elisabeth,; Diekmann, Andreas,; Franzen, Axel,; Greiser, Eberhard,; Gross, Jochen,; Hinz, Thomas,; Jann, Ben,; Kifmann, Mathias,; Krumpal, Ivar,; Krämer, Walter,; Mack, Verena,; Näher, Anatol-Fiete,; Opp, Karl-Dieter,; Paha, Johannes,; Schräpler, Jörg-Peter,; Shikano, Susumu,; Vogl, Dominikus,; Wagner, Michael,; Weiß, Bernd,
• HerausgeberIn: Diekmann, Andreas,
• Place / Publishing House: München ;, Wien : : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2016]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (208 p.)

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Inhalt / Contents
• Guest Editorial
• Abhandlungen / Original Papers
• The Production of Historical “Facts”: How the Wrong Number of Participants in the Leipzig Monday Demonstration on October 9,1989 Became a Convention
• “True Believers” or Numerical Terrorism at the Nuclear Power Plant
• One-eyed Epidemiologie Dummies at Nuclear Power Plants
• Are Most Published Research Findings False?
• What Fuels Publication Bias?
• The Identification and Prevention of Publication Bias in the Social Sciences and Economics
• Benford’s Law as an Instrument for Fraud Detection in Surveys Using the Data of the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP)
• When Does the Second-Digit Benford's Law-Test Signal an Election Fraud?
• Difficulties Detecting Fraud? The Use of Benford's Law on Regression Tables
• Plagiarism in Student Papers: Prevalence Estimates Using Special Techniques for Sensitive Questions
• Pitfalls of International Comparative Research: Taking Acquiescence into Account
• Buchbesprechungen / Book Reviews
• Backmatter