Abstract:The assessment of risk of default on credit is important for financial institutions. Logistic regression and discriminant analysis are techniques traditionally used in credit rating for determining likelihood to default based on consumer application and credit reference agency data. We test support vector machines (SVM) against these traditional methods on a large credit card database. We find that they are competitive and can be used as the basis of a feature selection method to discover those features that a… Show more
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