Two models to investigate medicare fraud within unsupervised databases

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 8628-8633

  Musal, Rasim Muzaffer ^a  

^a TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Clustering methods; Distances analysis; Fraud; Medicare; Unsupervised methods

Indexed keywords

CRIME; HEALTH INSURANCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CLUSTERING METHODS; DISTANCES ANALYSIS; FRAUD; MEDICARE; UNSUPERVISED METHOD;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 77957833052     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2010.06.095     Document Type: Article

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