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Electricity theft: a comparative analysis

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  1. Hugo Brise o & Omar Rojas, 2020. "Factors Associated with Electricity Theft in Mexico," International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy, Econjournals, vol. 10(3), pages 250-254.
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  37. Zhengwei Qu & Hongwen Li & Yunjing Wang & Jiaxi Zhang & Ahmed Abu-Siada & Yunxiao Yao, 2020. "Detection of Electricity Theft Behavior Based on Improved Synthetic Minority Oversampling Technique and Random Forest Classifier," Energies, MDPI, vol. 13(8), pages 1-20, April.
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