Does segmentation always improve model performance in credit scoring?

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 2433-2442

  Bijak, Katarzyna ^a   Thomas, Lyn C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CART; CHAID; Credit scoring; Logistic regression; LOTUS; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

CART; CHAID; CREDIT SCORING; LOGISTIC REGRESSION; LOTUS;

PLANT EXTRACTS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 80255123800     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2011.08.093     Document Type: Article

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