Authors: Hiroshi Konno Masato Saito
Publish Date: 2013/04/24
Volume: 55, Issue: 2, Pages: 469-480
Abstract
We recently proposed a data mining approach for classifying companies into several groups using ellipsoidal surfaces This problem can be formulated as a semidefinite programming problem which can be solved within a practical amount of computation time by using a stateoftheart semidefinite programming software It turned out that this method performs better for this application than earlier methods based on linear and general quadratic surfacesIn this paper we will improve the performance of ellipsoidal separation by incorporating the idea of maximal margin hyperplane developed in the field of support vector machine It will be demonstrated that the new method can very well simulate the rating of a leading rating company of Japan by using up to 18 financial attributes of 363 companies This paper is expected to provide another evidence of the importance of ellipsoidal separation approach in credit risk analysis
Keywords: