A comparative assessment of ensemble learning for credit scoring

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 223-230

  Wang, Gang ^a,b   Hao, Jinxing ^b,c   Ma, Jian ^b   Jiang, Hongbing ^b  

^a HEFEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bagging; Boosting; Credit scoring; Ensemble learning; Stacking

Indexed keywords

BAGGING; BOOSTING; CREDIT SCORING; ENSEMBLE LEARNING; STACKING;

DECISION TREES; NEURAL NETWORKS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 77956619458     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2010.06.048     Document Type: Article

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