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Benchmarking state-of-the-art classification algorithms for credit scoring: An update of research
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“Many benchmarking studies have illustrated that complex analytical techniques only provide marginal performance gains on structured, tabular data sets as frequently encountered in common classification tasks such as fraud detection, credit scoring and marketing analytics (Baesens et al., 2003; Lessmann et al., 2015).”
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“One of the explanations for their popularity for time series forecasting (cf. other advanced techniques such as bagged or boosted decision trees), is that they are better-suited to handle continuous covariates (Lessmann, Baesens, Seow, & Thomas, 2015), which occur frequently in financial time series forecasting (e.g., prices, price differences or technical indicators).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Lessmann, S., Baesens, B., Seow, H.-V., & Thomas, L. C.
- Affiliations
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (DE)
- University of Southampton (GB)
- University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus (MY)
- Corresponding author
- Lessmann, Stefan
- Venue
- European Journal of Operational Research
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2015-11
- Volume
- 247
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 124-136
- ISSN
- 0377-2217 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2131816657
- Cited by
- 1,284
- References
- 170
- Citations by year
- 2026: 218 · 2025: 193 · 2024: 109 · 2023: 129 · 2022: 121 · 2021: 134 · 2020: 109 · 2019: 112 · 2018: 73 · 2017: 48 · 2016: 29 · 2015: 7
- FWCI
- 230.52
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- lirias.kuleuven.be
- Licence
- Locations
- European Journal of Operational Research (publishedVersion)
- ePrints Soton (University of Southampton) (acceptedVersion)
- Lirias (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Accounting › Financial Distress and Bankruptcy Prediction
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Imbalanced Data Classification Techniques
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Management Science and Operations Research › Forecasting Techniques and Applications
- Keywords
- credit scoring, machine learning classifiers, benchmarking, classifier comparison, credit risk assessment
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