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Model-Based Cluster Analysis Of Indiana Social Security Beneficiary Data, Gwendolyn Spencer

Undergraduate Honors Thesis Collection

Annual reports of the U.S. Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) program, published by the Social Security Administration, detail the aggregate information about the program for each U.S. Postal ZIP code. This information includes the types of beneficiaries and monthly benefits received. These reports present the opportunity for contemporary analysis of the aggregate information about the OASDI program. To better capture the significance of the most-recent report for 2018, this project will use model-based cluster analysis, the unsupervised machine-learning process of grouping similar data points, to compare the 2017 and 2018 data. Due to the large amount of data, the …