Modeling credit scoring using neural network ensembles

Kybernetes

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1114-1123

  Tsai, Chih Fong ^a   Hung, Chihli ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHUNG YUAN CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Bankruptcy prediction; Classifier ensemble; Credit scoring; Hybrid classifier; Machine learning

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; FINANCE; FORECASTING; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; PLANT SHUTDOWNS; SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS;

BANKRUPTCY PREDICTION; CLASSIFICATION TECHNIQUE; CLASSIFIER ENSEMBLES; CREDIT SCORING; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; FINANCIAL DISTRESS PREDICTION; HYBRID CLASSIFIER; MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84912050356     PISSN: 0368492X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/K-01-2014-0016     Document Type: Article

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