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Benford's law , Power query
- 6 years ago
Hi
please paste this code into the advanced editor and follow the steps:
let MyTable = Table.FromColumns({List.Transform(List.Random(10000), each _ * 10000) } ), ExtractLast2Digits = Table.AddColumn(MyTable, "Last2Digits", each Text.End(Text.From([Column1]),2)), BenfordTable = Table.AddColumn( #table( {"Last2Digits"}, List.Transform( {0..99}, each {Text.PadStart(Text.From(_), 2, "0")})), "BenfordNumber", each 0.01 as number ), #"Merged Queries" = Table.NestedJoin(BenfordTable, {"Last2Digits"}, ExtractLast2Digits, {"Last2Digits"}, "MyTable", JoinKind.LeftOuter), #"Aggregated MyTable" = Table.AggregateTableColumn(#"Merged Queries", "MyTable", {{"Column1", each List.Count(_) / Table.RowCount(MyTable), "ActualDistribution"}}), #"Inserted Subtraction" = Table.AddColumn(#"Aggregated MyTable", "Deviation", each [ActualDistribution] - [BenfordNumber], type number), #"Inserted Absolute Value" = Table.AddColumn(#"Inserted Subtraction", "Absolute Deviation", each Number.Abs([Deviation]), type number) in #"Inserted Absolute Value"It will create a table with the Benford-distribution values.
If you want to apply it to your data, just replace the code in the first step (MyTable) by a reference to your table and make sure that that column with the values to be analyzed is called "Column1". Then you don't have to adjust anything further in the code.
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