- Title
- Statistical methods for the detection of non-technical losses: a case study for the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality
- Creator
- Pazi, Sisa
- Subject
- Nonparametric statistics Mathematical statistics
- Subject
- Statistics
- Date Issued
- 2017
- Date
- 2017
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MSc
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/19706
- Identifier
- vital:28939
- Description
- Electricity is one of the most stolen commodities in the world. Electricity theft can be defined as the criminal act of stealing electrical power. Several types of electricity theft exist, including illegal connections and bypassing and tampering with energy meters. The negative financial impacts, due to lost revenue, of electricity theft are far reaching and affect both developing and developed countries. . Here in South Africa, Eskom loses over R2 Billion annually due to electricity theft. Data mining and nonparametric statistical methods have been used to detect fraudulent usage of electricity by assessing abnormalities and abrupt changes in kilowatt hour (kWh) consumption patterns. Identifying effective measures to detect fraudulent electricity usage is an active area of research in the electrical domain. In this study, Support Vector Machines (SVM), Naïve Bayes (NB) and k-Nearest Neighbour (KNN) algorithms were used to design and propose an electricity fraud detection model. Using the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality as a case study, three classifiers were built with SVM, NB and KNN algorithms. The performance of these classifiers were evaluated and compared.
- Format
- ix, 66 leaves
- Format
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Science
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
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