The hybrid systems for credit rating

The hybrid systems for credit rating

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Article ID: iaor19982579
Country: South Korea
Volume: 22
Issue: 3
Start Page Number: 163
End Page Number: 173
Publication Date: Sep 1997
Journal: Journal of the Korean ORMS Society
Authors: , ,
Keywords: management
Abstract:

Although numerous studies demonstrate that one technique outperforms the others for a given data set, it is hard to tell a priori which of these techniques will be the most effective to solve a specific problem. It has been suggested that the better approach to classification problems might be to integrate several different forecasting techniques by combining their results. The issues of interest are how to integrate different modeling techniques to increase the predictive performance. This paper proposes the post-model integration method, which tries to find the best combination of the results provided by individual techniques. To get the optimal or near optimal combination of different prediction techniques, Genetic Algorithms (GAs) are applied, which are particularly suitable for multi-parameter optimization problems with an objective function subject to numerous hard and soft constraints. This study applies three individual classification techniques (Discriminant analysis, Logit model and Neural Networks) as base models for the corporate failure prediction. The results of composite predictions are compared with the individual models. Preliminary results suggest that the use of integrated methods improves the performance of business classification.

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