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<journal-id>0121-0807</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Revista de la Universidad Industrial de Santander. Salud]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Rev. Univ. Ind. Santander. Salud]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>0121-0807</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Universidad Industrial de Santander]]></publisher-name>
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<article-id>S0121-08072020000200161</article-id>
<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.18273/revsal.v52n2-2020010</article-id>
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<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[Benford´s Law with small sample sizes: A new exact test useful in health sciences during epidemics]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[Ley de Benford con muestras pequeñas: una prueba exacta nueva útil ciencias de la salud durante epidemias]]></article-title>
</title-group>
<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Moreno-Montoya]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[José]]></given-names>
</name>
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</contrib-group>
<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,Fundación Santa Fe de Bogotá  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[Bogotá, D.C ]]></addr-line>
<country>Colombia</country>
</aff>
<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>06</month>
<year>2020</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>06</month>
<year>2020</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>52</volume>
<numero>2</numero>
<fpage>161</fpage>
<lpage>163</lpage>
<copyright-statement/>
<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S0121-08072020000200161&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S0121-08072020000200161&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S0121-08072020000200161&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Abstract Benford or &#8220;first digit&#8221; law has been used successfully to evaluate epidemiological surveillance systems, especially during epidemics. Conventional statistical methods for evaluation (x2 and log-likelihood ratio) are controversial when the number of data is small (n &lt;7). In this methodological note a new test is proposed to evaluate compliance with Benford&#8217;s law with small samples, which can be used with biomedical, medical and public health data.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[Resumen La ley de Benford o de los &#8220;primeros dígitos&#8221; ha sido usada exitosamente para evaluar los sistemas de vigilancia epidemiológica, en especial durante epidemias. Los métodos estadísticos convencionales para la evaluación (x  2 y razón de log-verosimilitud) son controversiales cuando los datos son poco (n&lt;7). En esta nota metodológica se propone una nueva prueba para evaluar el cumplimiento de la ley de Benford con muestras pequeñas, que puede ser usada con datos de biomedicina, medicina y salud pública.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Analysis of data]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Epidemics]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[COVID-19 infection]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Public health emerging infections.]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Análisis de datos]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Epidemia]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Infección con COVID-19]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Infecciones emergentes en salud pública.]]></kwd>
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