Statistics and Healthcare Fraud (Neyman Seminar)

Statistics and Healthcare Fraud (Neyman Seminar)

Neyman Seminar
Oct 17, 2012, 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM | 1011 Evans Hall | Happening As Scheduled
Donald Edwards, University of South Carolina and University of California, San Francisco (Speaker)
Healthcare fraud is a serious American problem: it has recently been featured on CBS’ Sixty Minutes and the NBC Evening News; loss was estimated at $69 billion in 2007 (www.nhcaa.org), more than was later spent on the GM/Chrysler bailouts and the BP oil crisis combined. Statistical methods, featured in the final volume of 2011’s American Statistician, are center-stage in the battle against...