April 29, 2007 by Mike.Blakley.

I have received a number of requests for the ability to create charts which show the results of tests of Benford’s law and can be downloaded and included in other documents, such as Word® or Powerpoint®. I have added such capability in the server routines (Main|Benford’s Law). As an option, an output file name can be specified for the chart desired. The resulting chart will then be available for view or download from the URL http://ezrstats.org/chart/FILENAME.PNG where FILENAME.PNG was the name specified for the output. An example of the charts is available for view. Use of the server and routines is available at no charge. I have had quite a number of visitors from both educational institutions as well as government agencies.

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April 8, 2007 by Mike.Blakley.

Excel is among the most common platforms for analysis by auditors, analysts and researchers. I have established a beta site for development/testing of various types of data extracts using PHP. In order to use this, upload your Excel data to the server and then code and test the PHP script to perform the analysis. Results are returned in a format that can then be pasted back into Excel. Examples and help screens are provided.

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