“…The use of artificial intelligence techniques, imported from statistical learning theory, such as classification trees (Breiman et al, 1984) and neural networks (Desai et al, 1996;Malhotra & Malhotra, 2002) has become increasingly common in credit scoring systems. Statistical learning methods have received great attention in the past decade in finance-related research, for credit scoring and bankruptcy prediction (Li et al, 2006), bankruptcy classification (Lensberg et al, 2006), stress analysis (Gestel et al, 2006) and application for financing decisions and return (West et al, 2005;Xia et al, 2000). In addition, regression techniques (Lee & Chen, 2005) and clustering techniques (Wei et al, 2014) have also been adapted for the credit scoring problem.…”