A fraud dataset is highly imbalanced and a model predicts every transaction as legitimate while reporting high accuracy. Which approach best fits?

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  1. Investigate overfitting and use appropriate regularization or data improvements.
  2. Use metrics such as precision, recall, and PR analysis appropriate to the business costs.
  3. Choose and validate a decision threshold aligned with recall and false-positive costs.
  4. Reserve a final independent test set and use validation data for model selection.

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