Credit rating with a monotonicity-constrained support vector machine model

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 41, Issue 16, 2014, Pages 7235-7247

  Chen, Chih Chuan ^a,b   Li, Sheng Tun ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Taiwan Shoufu University   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Credit rating; Data mining; Monotonicity constraint; Prior domain knowledge; SVM

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; VIRTUAL REALITY;

CREDIT RATINGS; DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE; FINANCIAL EXPERTS; FINANCIAL INSTITUTION; MONOTONICITY CONSTRAINT; PRIOR KNOWLEDGE; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE MODELS; SVM;

RATING;

EID: 84904336047     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2014.05.035     Document Type: Article

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