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Benford's Law and distributions for better drug design.

Alfonso T García-Sosa
Published in: Expert opinion on drug discovery (2023)
As the relevance of data-driven discovery escalates, we anticipate meticulous scrutiny of datasets utilizing principles like Benford's Law to enhance data integrity and guide efficient resource allocation and experimental planning. In this data-driven era of the pharmaceutical and medical industries, addressing critical aspects such as bias mitigation, algorithm effectiveness, data stewardship, effects, and fraud prevention are essential. Harnessing Benford's Law and other distributions and statistical tests in DD provides a potent strategy to detect data anomalies, fill data gaps, and enhance dataset quality. Benford's Law is a fast method for data integrity and quality of datasets, the backbone of AI/ML and other modeling approaches, proving very useful in the design process.
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