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Machine Learning applied to public sector auditing: a case study of the Department of Public Health in São Paulo, Brazil

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Poster presented at the 10th Public and Nonprofit Conference of the School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas, USA, 2026.

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