SVM-Based Credit Rating and Feature Selection

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 are most significant in determining risk of default.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 618)
• Pages: 573-577
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.618.573
• Online since: August 2014
• Authors: Yu Qiang Qin*, Yu Dong Qi, Hui Ying
• Keywords: Credit Rating, Feature Selection, SVM

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