Imbalanced enterprise credit evaluation with DTE-SBD: Decision tree ensemble based on SMOTE and bagging with differentiated sampling rates

Information Sciences

Volumn 425, Issue , 2018, Pages 76-91

  Sun, Jie ^a   Lang, Jie ^b   Fujita, Hamido ^c   Li, Hui ^d  

^a TIANJIN UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c IWATE PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bagging; Decision tree ensemble; Differentiated sampling rates; Enterprise credit evaluation; Imbalanced classification; SMOTE

Indexed keywords

DECISION TREES; ITERATIVE METHODS; RISK MANAGEMENT; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

BAGGING; CREDIT EVALUATIONS; DIFFERENTIATED SAMPLING RATES; IMBALANCED CLASSIFICATION; SMOTE;

DATA MINING;

EID: 85042332829     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2017.10.017     Document Type: Article

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