Table Info

Region	Insurance claim (%)
Southeast USA	33.2
Northeast USA	17.3
Southwest USA	23.6
Northwest USA	25.9

Declarations

Author contributions

AA: Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing—original draft, Writing—review & editing. VRP: Supervision, Validation, Writing—review & editing. All authors read and approved the submitted version.

Conflicts of interest

The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.

Ethical approval

Not applicable.

Consent to participate

Not applicable.

Consent to publication

Not applicable.

Availability of data and materials

The datasets analyzed for this study can be found in Kaggle by Sumit Kumar Shukla (https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/thedevastator/insurance-claim-analysis-demographic-and-health).

Funding

Not applicable.

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