A logical analysis of banks' financial strength ratings

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 7808-7821

  Hammer, Peter L ^a   Kogan, Alexander ^a   Lejeune, Miguel A ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Credit risk rating; Data mining; Decision support systems; Logical Analysis of Data

Indexed keywords

COMBINATORICS; CREDIT RISK RATING; FINANCIAL STRENGTH; LOGIC-BASED METHODOLOGY; LOGICAL ANALYSIS; LOGICAL ANALYSIS OF DATA; LOGISTIC REGRESSIONS; RATING SYSTEM; RISK RATINGS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DATA MINING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; LOGISTICS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

RATING;

EID: 84858334434     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2012.01.087     Document Type: Article

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