An investigation of Zipf's Law for fraud detection (DSS#06-10-1826R(2))

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 70-83

  Huang, Shi Ming ^a   Yen, David C ^b   Yang, Luen Wei ^a   Hua, Jing Shiuan ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Benford's Law; Fraud detection; Misclassification cost matrix; Quasi experiment research; Zipf's Law

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; INTRUSION DETECTION;

BENFORD'S LAW; FRAUD DETECTION; MISCLASSIFICATION COST MATRIX; QUASI-EXPERIMENT RESEARCH; ZIPF'S LAW;

LAWS AND LEGISLATION;

EID: 56049089379     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2008.05.003     Document Type: Article

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