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Evaluating business credit risk by means of approach‐integrating decision rules and case‐based learning

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  • Jerzy Stefanowski
  • Szymon Wilk

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This research utilizes a new approach which uses a hybrid learning system that combines two representations of knowledge: the first in a form of decision rules referring to general knowledge, and the other of single cases corresponding to exceptions or untypical situations. The Explore algorithm was chosen as a tool for inducing general rules. It generates all simple and sufficiently strong general rules from a given data set. Examples discovered by these rules are then used to identify exceptions and untypical cases. The paper discusses problems connected with tuning parameters of this approach and introduces a new procedure for this task. This methodology is applied to solve the problem of evaluating the risk of business credit applications in a Polish commercial bank. Using information about business credit applications, as described by 35 economic parameters and using five groups of banking risk, a knowledge base consisting of 70 decision rules and 15 specific cases was induced. Testing this model in the standard ‘leaving‐one‐out’ way we achieved the best classification accuracy of 81%. A comparative study showed that results obtained by other machine‐learning algorithms resulted in significantly worse classification accuracy. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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  • Jerzy Stefanowski & Szymon Wilk, 2001. "Evaluating business credit risk by means of approach‐integrating decision rules and case‐based learning," Intelligent Systems in Accounting, Finance and Management, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 10(2), pages 97-114, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:isacfm:v:10:y:2001:i:2:p:97-114
    DOI: 10.1002/isaf.197
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