Detection of Internet scam using logistic regression

Conference Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 2168-2172

  Sharifi, Mehrbod ^a   Fink, Eugene ^a   Carbonell, Jaime G ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Machine learning; web security

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL EVALUATIONS; INTERNET SCAMS; LOGISTIC REGRESSIONS; MISLEADING INFORMATIONS; ONLINE SOURCES; PRECISION AND RECALL; SENSITIVE INFORMATIONS; WEB SECURITY;

CYBERNETICS; INTERNET; LEARNING SYSTEMS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER CRIME;

EID: 83755206461     PISSN: 1062922X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSMC.2011.6083998     Document Type: Conference Paper

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