• preface/approach

  • beyond good & evil

  • you’re either better

  • or the fraud is better

  • in fact you can’t see fraud

  • unless you surpass the fraudster

• reality/problem

  • the source of our livelihood and misery

  • we seek to better understand it, tame it, utilize it

  • sentinel systems, data collection mechanisms, transmission, storage

• encode/concepts

  • oneway

  • twoway

  • multivariable

  • hierarchical

  • pairs

    • python

    • ai

    • r

    • stata

• code/technical: dimentionality reduction from c(N) & c(k) -> r(mean), r(sd) (for stata), xxx for r, xxx for python

  • nonparametric

    • central tendency

    • spread

    • p

  • parametric

    • central tendency

    • spread

    • p

  • semiparametric

    • central tendency

    • spread

    • p

• decode/application

  • only parametric

  • can ‘reproduce’ original data

  • we call that simulation

  • random parametric distribution

• fake/simulation

  • mastery of this process

  • can be used for representation

  • but can also be used to beguile

  • also used for encryption and transmission

  • portability of information with privacy

  • grant applications or policy decision

  • in lieu of data or with limited data

  • missing data methods and imputation