Fraud detection in telecommunications and banking: Discussion of Becker, Volinsky, and Wilks (2010) and Sudjianto et al. (2010)

Technometrics

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 34-38

  Hand, David J ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anomaly detection; Credit cards; Data mining; Streaming data; Transactions

Indexed keywords

ANOMALY DETECTION; CREDIT CARDS; FRAUD DETECTION; RETAIL BANKING; STREAMING DATA;

CRIME;

EID: 77949408056     PISSN: 00401706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/TECH.2009.09115     Document Type: Article

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