Credit scoring with a data mining approach based on support vector machines

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 847-856

  Huang, Cheng Lung ^a   Chen, Mu Chen ^b   Wang, Chieh Jen ^c  

^a NATIONAL KAOHSIUNG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c HUAFAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Classification; Credit scoring; Data mining; Decision tree; Genetic programming; Neural networks; Support vector machine

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; DECISION TREES; GENETIC PROGRAMMING; NEURAL NETWORKS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

CLASSIFICATION PROBLEMS; CREDIT SCORING; DECISION TREE CLASSIFIERS; PARAMETERS OPTIMIZATION;

SMART CARDS;

EID: 34047126555     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2006.07.007     Document Type: Article

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