A hybrid neural network approach for credit scoring

Expert Systems

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 185-196

  Chuang, Chun Ling ^a   Huang, Szu Teng ^b  

^a KAINAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Shin Kong Commercial Bank ^*  (Taiwan)

Author keywords

and case based reasoning; artificial neural networks; classification; credit scoring; feature extraction; rough set theory

Indexed keywords

AND CASE-BASED REASONING; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS; CLASSIFICATION; CREDIT SCORING; ROUGH SET;

CASE BASED REASONING; COMPETITION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; ROUGH SET THEORY;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 79955069898     PISSN: 02664720     EISSN: 14680394     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0394.2010.00565.x     Document Type: Article

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