Assessing naïve Bayes as a method for screening credit applicants

Journal of Applied Statistics

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 537-545

  Antonakis, A C ^a   Sfakianakis, M E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PIRAEUS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Credit risk; Credit scorecard; Credit scoring; Na ve Bayes; Retail banking

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449371605     PISSN: 02664763     EISSN: 13600532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02664760802554263     Document Type: Article

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