A hybrid data mining model of feature selection algorithms and ensemble learning classifiers for credit scoring

Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services

Volumn 27, Issue , 2015, Pages 11-23

  Koutanaei, Fatemeh Nemati ^a   Sajedi, Hedieh ^b   Khanbabaei, Mohammad ^a  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Classification; Credit scoring; Data mining; Ensemble learning; Feature selection

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BANKING; CLASSIFICATION; DATA MINING; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; LEARNING;

EID: 84940488270     PISSN: 09696989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jretconser.2015.07.003     Document Type: Article

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