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Medical Insurance Fraud Detection: Text analysis
I'm trying to analyse a dataset to detect fraudulent insurance claims. Unfortunately, other than basic demographics the rest of the claim is a free format OCR scanned text file made from documents ...
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Identifying fraudulent questionnaires
Questionaires are often used in social sciences.
Many people try to complete them very quickly and very often they only "guess" answers.
Is there any statistical technique or any research in this ...
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How to apply clustering analysis to help identify criminal entities out from credit card usage data?
Let's say I have a ton of credit card usage data and have also some means to predict if a given transaction is fraudulent. Now I want to know what kind of criminal entities are behind these frauds. ...
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How is election fraud by ballot stuffing possible?
An NPR story on the upcoming Russian presidential election mentioned that 5% of polling sites would be equipped with new electronic ballot boxes that would reject attempts to submit multiple ballots. ...
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Election forensics using statistical methods in practice?
Are you aware of any examples of election forensics in practice? Or at least any applied research on real large-scale datasets (e.g. govermental elections)? Thanks.
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Reading recommendation on using statistical analysis in online fraud prevention
Can you please recommend good reads on statistical analysis related to online fraud detection and prevention of account abuse?
Thank you.
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Any good reference books/material to help me build a txn level fraud detection model?
I am looking for a book/case study etc on how to build a fraud detection model at the transaction level. Something applied rather than theoretical would be really helpful.
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Statistical forensics: Benford and beyond
What broad methods are there to detect fraud, anomalies, fudging, etc. in scientific works produced by a third party? (I was motivated to ask this by the recent Marc Hauser affair.) Usually for ...
