Strong profiling is not mathematically optimal for discovering rare malfeasors

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1716-1719

  Press, William H ^a,b  

^a University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Rare events; Screening; Square root biased sampling

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RANDOM SAMPLE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCREENING; ETHNIC GROUP; HUMAN; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL; TERRORISM;

ETHNIC GROUPS; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL; SECURITY MEASURES; TERRORISM;

EID: 60549085740     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0813202106     Document Type: Article

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