Genetic programming for credit scoring: The case of Egyptian public sector banks

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 11402-11417

  Abdou, Hussein A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Credit scoring; Egyptian public sector banks; Genetic programming; Weight of evidence

Indexed keywords

BANKING SECTORS; CLUSTER-GROUPING; CREDIT SCORING; CREDIT SCORING MODEL; DARWINIAN EVOLUTION; DATA SETS; EGYPTIAN PUBLIC SECTOR BANKS; EGYPTIANS; EVALUATION CRITERIA; KOHONEN MAP; LOGISTIC REGRESSIONS; MISCLASSIFICATION COSTS; PROBIT ANALYSIS; PUBLIC SECTOR; WEIGHT OF EVIDENCE;

ELECTROMAGNETIC COMPATIBILITY; PLASTIC MOLDS;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING;

EID: 67349195042     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2009.01.076     Document Type: Article

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