Neural network credit scoring models

Computers and Operations Research

Volumn 27, Issue 11-12, 2000, Pages 1131-1152

  West, David ^a  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Credit scoring; Mixture of experts; Multilayer perceptron; Neural networks; Radial basis function

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION THEORY; EXPERT SYSTEMS; FUZZY SETS; OPERATIONS RESEARCH; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL METHODS; VECTOR QUANTIZATION;

CREDIT SCORING MODELS; DATA SETS; DECISION TREES; FUZZY ADAPTIVE RESONANCE; KERNEL DENSITY ESTIMATION; LEARNING VECTOR QUANTIZATION; LINEAR DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

COMPUTER SYSTEM; CREDIT PROVISION; MODELING;

EID: 0034118581     PISSN: 03050548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-0548(99)00149-5     Document Type: Article

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