Download or read book Data mining techniques in financial fraud detection written by Rohan Ahmed and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2018-05-24 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2016 in the subject Computer Science - General, grade: 1.7, Heilbronn University, language: English, abstract: In this seminar thesis you will get a view about the Data Mining techniques in financial fraud detection. Financial Fraud is taking a big issue in economical problem, which is still growing. So there is a big interest to detect fraud, but by large amounts of data, this is difficult. Therefore, many data mining techniques are repeatedly used to detect frauds in fraudulent activities. Majority of fraud area are Insurance, Banking, Health and Financial Statement Fraud. The most widely used data mining techniques are Support Vector Machines (SVM), Decision Trees (DT), Logistic Regression (LR), Naives Bayes, Bayesian Belief Network, Classification and Regression Tree (CART) etc. These techniques existed for many years and are used repeatedly to develop a fraud detection system or for analyze frauds.