Use of Benford's law in drug discovery data.

Abstract:

:Benford's law states that the distribution of the first digit of many data sets is not uniform. The first digit of any random number will be 1 almost 30% of the time, and larger digits occur as the first digit with lower and lower frequency, to the point where 9 occurs as a first digit only 5% of the time. Here, we demonstrate that several data sets in the field of drug discovery follow Benford's distribution, whereas 'doctored' data do not. Our findings indicate the applicability of Benford's law in assessing data quality in the field of drug discovery. We also propose a useful index of evaluating data quality based on Benford's law.

journal_name

Drug Discov Today

journal_title

Drug discovery today

authors

Orita M,Moritomo A,Niimi T,Ohno K

doi

10.1016/j.drudis.2010.03.003

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2010-05-01 00:00:00

pages

328-31

issue

9-10

eissn

1359-6446

issn

1878-5832

pii

S1359-6446(10)00079-6

journal_volume

15

pub_type

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