Classifiers consensus system approach for credit scoring

Knowledge-Based Systems

Volumn 104, Issue , 2016, Pages 89-105

  Ala'Raj, Maher ^a   Abbod, Maysam F ^a  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Classification; Classifier ensembles; Consensus approach; Credit scoring; Multiple classifier systems

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COMPLEX NETWORKS; DECISION TREES; FINANCE; LOSSES;

CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; CLASSIFIER ENSEMBLES; COMBINATION APPROACHES; CONSENSUS APPROACH; CREDIT SCORING; MULTIPLE CLASSIFIER SYSTEMS; MULTIVARIATE ADAPTIVE REGRESSION SPLINES; PREDICTION PERFORMANCE;

SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

EID: 84992292647     PISSN: 09507051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.knosys.2016.04.013     Document Type: Article

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