A study in the combination of two consumer credit scores

H Zhu, P A Beling () and G A Overstreet
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H Zhu: University of Virginia
P A Beling: University of Virginia
G A Overstreet: University of Virginia

Journal of the Operational Research Society, 2001, vol. 52, issue 9, 974-980

Abstract: Abstract Credit scores measure the creditworthiness of individuals in a population of interest. In this paper, we employ the concepts of sufficiency and extraneousness to study the conditions under which scoring results can be improved through the combination of individual scores. The concept of sufficiency is used to identify scores that are dominant. Extraneousness is used to determine whether a particular score provides additional useful information relative to other scores. In addition, we employ a profit-based utility measure to evaluate the performance of different scores. We investigate the performance of a regression-based combination of a bureau credit score and an application credit score on a large historical data set. Our results show that the bureau score is dominated by the application score, but the bureau score is not extraneous to the combination. Thus, both scores contribute to the combined score, which indeed outperforms both of the scores upon which it is based.

Keywords: credit scoring; classifier combination; sufficiency; extraneousness (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
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