Filter- versus wrapper-based feature selection for credit scoring

International Journal of Intelligent Systems

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 985-999

  Somol, Petr ^a   Baesens, Bart ^b,c   Pudil, Pavel ^a   Vanthienen, Jan ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION THEORY AND AUTOMATION   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; SET THEORY;

CREDIT SCORING; DATA SETS; FEATURE SELECTION; LOAN PAYERS;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 27844539754     PISSN: 08848173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/int.20103     Document Type: Article

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