“…Standard performance evaluation criteria in the fields of credit soring include accuracy, error rate, Gini coefficient, Kolmogorov-Smirnov statistic, mean squared error, area under the ROC curve, type-I error and type-II error (Thomas et al 2002, Yang et al 2004, Hand 2005, Abdou and Pointon 2011. For a two-class problem, most of these metrics can be easily derived from a 2 × 2 confusion matrix as that given in Table 2, where each entry (i, j) contains the number of correct/incorrect predictions.…”