Department
Statistics and Analytical Sciences
Document Type
Article
Submission Date
2016
Abstract
The aim of this paper to predict a past-due amount using traditional and machine learning techniques: Logistic Analysis, k-Nearest Neighbor and Random Forest. The dataset to be analyzed is provided by Equifax, which contains 305 categories of financial information from more than 11,787,287 unique businesses from 2006 to 2014. The big challenge is how to handle with the big and noisy real world datasets. Among the three techniques, the results show that Logistic Regression Method is the best in terms of predictive accuracy and type I errors.