Secrets of the digital detectives.
This article reports on the software being used to detect fraud. One of the highlighted markets, for car insurance, allows computers to compute variables that would otherwise be undetectable or too complicated for a human fraud detector. For instance, most claims filed over the weekend or on a Mon...
| Publicado en: | Economist Vol. 380; no. 8496; pp. 34 - 36 |
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Economist Newspaper Limited
9/23/2006
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