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Anomaly detection

Identifying transactions that deviate from normal patterns.

Definition

Anomaly detection flags records that are statistically unusual relative to their own history — unexpected amounts, timing, frequency or counterparties — for human review.

Why it matters

Reviewing a full population instead of a sample is the main advantage software has over manual audit. Duplicates and threshold-splitting rarely survive full-population testing.

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