Semi-supervised adapted HMMs for P2P credit scoring systems with reject inference

Monir El Annas (), Badreddine Benyacoub () and Mohamed Ouzineb ()
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Monir El Annas: Institut National de Statistique et d’Economie Appliquée
Badreddine Benyacoub: Institut National de Statistique et d’Economie Appliquée
Mohamed Ouzineb: Institut National de Statistique et d’Economie Appliquée

Computational Statistics, 2023, vol. 38, issue 1, No 8, 149-169

Abstract: Abstract The majority of current credit-scoring models, used for loan approval processing, are generally built on the basis of the information from the accepted credit applicants whose ability to repay the loan is known. This situation generates what is called the selection bias, presented by a sample that is not representative of the population of applicants, since rejected applications are excluded. Thus, the impact on the eligibility of those models from a statistical and economic point of view. Especially for the models used in the peer-to-peer lending platforms, since their rejection rate is extremely high. The method of inferring rejected applicants information in the process of construction of the credit scoring models is known as reject inference. This study proposes a semi-supervised learning framework based on hidden Markov models (SSHMM), as a novel method of reject inference. Real data from the Lending Club platform, the most used online lending marketplace in the United States as well as the rest of the world, is used to experiment the effectiveness of our method over existing approaches. The results of this study clearly illustrate the proposed method’s superiority, stability, and adaptability.

Keywords: Reject Inference; P2P lending; Credit scoring; Hidden Markov models; Semi-supervised learning (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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