Mathematical statistics and graph theory methods preventing financial fraud

Authors: Portnova A.S.
Published in issue: #2(2)/2016
DOI: 10.18698/2541-8009-2016-2-13
Category: Informatics, Computer Engineering and Control | Chapter: Methods and Systems of Information Protection, Information Security
Keywords: antifraud, Benford’s Law, Markov network, insider network
Published: 20.10.2016

The study tested the mathematical statistics and graph theory methods allowing us to detect fraudsters in the information environment. The first method makes it possible to prevent illegal activities of the whole fraudulent structure, the second method enables us to determine who is engaged in illegal activity on the stock exchange, the third one is good for detecting the data falsification.

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