Support vector machines for credit scoring and discovery of significant features

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 36, Issue 2 PART 2, 2009, Pages 3302-3308

  Bellotti, Tony ^a   Crook, Jonathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Credit scoring; Feature selection; SVM

Indexed keywords

DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; RISK ASSESSMENT;

CONSUMER APPLICATIONS; CREDIT CARDS; CREDIT SCORING; FEATURE SELECTION METHODS; FINANCIAL INSTITUTION; LOGISTIC REGRESSIONS;

SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

EID: 56349130760     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2008.01.005     Document Type: Article

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