Adaptive fraud detection using benford's law

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4013 LNAI, Issue , 2006, Pages 347-358

  Lu, Fletcher ^a   Boritz, J E ^b   Covvey, Dominic ^b  

^a Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants ^*  (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; DATA ACQUISITION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY; REINFORCEMENT;

ANOMALOUS BEHAVIOR; DIGITAL ANALYSIS; IDENTIFIED ACTUAL FRAUDSTERS; REINFORCEMENT LEARNING METHOD;

LAWS AND LEGISLATION;

EID: 33746060889     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11766247_30     Document Type: Conference Paper

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