Assessing consumer fraud risk in insurance claims: An unsupervised learning technique using discrete and continuous predictor variables

North American Actuarial Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 438-458

  Ai, Jing ^a   Golden, Linda L ^b   Brockett, Patrick L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

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EID: 77954341530     PISSN: 10920277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10920277.2009.10597568     Document Type: Article

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