Baesens Bart - Fraud analytics using descriptive, predictive, and social network techniques a guide to data science for fraud detection

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2. Analytics in a Big Data World: The Essential Guide to Data Science and Its Applications by Bart Baesens
3. Bank Fraud: Using Technology to Combat Losses by Revathi Subramanian
4. Big Data Analytics: Turning Big Data into Big Money by Frank Ohlhorst
5. Big Data, Big Innovation: Enabling Competitive Differentiation through Business Analytics by Evan Stubbs
6. Business Analytics for Customer Intelligence by Gert Laursen
7. Business Intelligence Applied: Implementing an Effective Information and Communications Technology Infrastructure by Michael Gendron
8. Business Intelligence and the Cloud: Strategic Implementation Guide by Michael S. Gendron
9. Business Transformation: A Roadmap for Maximizing Organizational Insights by Aiman Zeid
10. Connecting Organizational Silos: Taking Knowledge Flow Management to the Next Level with Social Media by Frank Leistner
11. Data-Driven Healthcare: How Analytics and BI Are Transforming the Industry by Laura Madsen
12. Delivering Business Analytics: Practical Guidelines for Best Practice by Evan Stubbs
13. Demand-Driven Forecasting: A Structured Approach to Forecasting, Second Edition by Charles Chase
14. Demand-Driven Inventory Optimization and Replenishment: Creating a More Efficient Supply Chain by Robert A. Davis
15. Developing Human Capital: Using Analytics to Plan and Optimize Your Learning and Development Investments by Gene Pease, Barbara Beresford, and Lew Walker
16. The Executive's Guide to Enterprise Social Media Strategy: How Social Networks Are Radically Transforming Your Business by David Thomas and Mike Barlow
17. Economic and Business Forecasting: Analyzing and Interpreting Econometric Results by John Silvia, Azhar Iqbal, Kaylyn Swankoski, Sarah Watt, and Sam Bullard
18. Financial Institution Advantage and The Optimization of Information Processing by Sean C. Keenan
19. Foreign Currency Financial Reporting from Euros to Yen to Yuan: A Guide to Fundamental Concepts and Practical Applications by Robert Rowan
20. Harness Oil and Gas Big Data with Analytics: Optimize Exploration and Production with Data Driven Models by Keith Holdaway
21. Health Analytics: Gaining the Insights to Transform Health Care by Jason Burke
22. Heuristics in Analytics: A Practical Perspective of What Influences Our Analytical World by Carlos Andre Reis Pinheiro and Fiona McNeill
23. Human Capital Analytics: How to Harness the Potential of Your Organization's Greatest Asset by Gene Pease, Boyce Byerly, and Jac Fitz-enz
24. Implement, Improve and Expand Your Statewide Longitudinal Data System: Creating a Culture of Data in Education by Jamie McQuiggan and Armistead Sapp
25. Killer Analytics: Top 20 Metrics Missing from Your Balance Sheet by Mark Brown
26. Predictive Analytics for Human Resources by Jac Fitz-enz and John Mattox II
27. Predictive Business Analytics: Forward-Looking Capabilities to Improve Business Performance by Lawrence Maisel and Gary Cokins
28. Retail Analytics: The Secret Weapon by Emmett Cox
29. Social Network Analysis in Telecommunications by Carlos Andre Reis Pinheiro
30. Statistical Thinking: Improving Business Performance, second edition by Roger W. Hoerl and Ronald D. Snee
31. Taming the Big Data Tidal Wave: Finding Opportunities in Huge Data Streams with Advanced Analytics by Bill Franks
32. Too Big to Ignore: The Business Case for Big Data by Phil Simon
33. The Value of Business Analytics: Identifying the Path to Profitability by Evan Stubbs
34. The Visual Organization: Data Visualization, Big Data, and the Quest for Better Decisions by Phil Simon
35. Understanding the Predictive Analytics Lifecycle by Al Cordoba
36. Unleashing Your Inner Leader: An Executive Coach Tells All by Vickie Bevenour
37. Using Big Data Analytics: Turning Big Data into Big Money by Jared Dean
38. Win with Advanced Business Analytics: Creating Business Value from Your Data by Jean Paul Isson and Jesse Harriott

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:

Baesens, Bart.

Fraud analytics using descriptive, predictive, and social network techniques : a guide to data science for fraud detection / Bart Baesens, Veronique Van Vlasselaer, Wouter Verbeke.

pages cm. (Wiley & SAS business series)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-119-13312-4 (cloth) ISBN 978-1-119-14682-7 (epdf) ISBN 978-1-119-14683-4 (epub)

1. Fraud Statistical methods. 2. Fraud Prevention. 3. Commercial crimes Prevention. I. Title.

HV6691.B34 2015

364.163015195dc23

2015017861

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Cover Image: iStock.com/aleksandarvelasevic

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