Credit scoring models for the microfinance industry using neural networks: Evidence from Peru

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 356-364

  Blanco, Antonio ^a   Pino Mejías, Rafael ^a   Lara, Juan ^b   Rayo, Salvador ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Classification rules; Linear discriminant analysis; Logistic regression; Microfinance institutions; Multilayer perceptron; Quadratic discriminant analysis

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION RULES; LINEAR DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; LOGISTIC REGRESSIONS; MICROFINANCE; MULTI LAYER PERCEPTRON; QUADRATIC DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS;

BENCHMARKING; COMPETITION; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; LOGISTICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

FINANCE;

EID: 84866102435     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2012.07.051     Document Type: Article

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