Machine learning is becoming a part of everyday life and has an indisputable impact across large array of industries. In the financial industry, this impact lies particularly in predictive modelling. The goal of this thesis is to describe the basic principles of artificial intelligence and its subset, machine learning. The most widely used machine learning techniques are outlined both in a theoretical and a practical way. As a result, four models were assembled within the thesis. Results and limitations of each model were discussed and these models were also mutually compared based on their individual per- formance. The evaluation was executed on a real world dataset, provided by Home Credit company. Final performance of machine learning methods, measured by the KS and GINI metrics, was either very comparable or even worse than the performance of a traditional logistic regression. Still, the problem may lie in an insu cient dataset, in the improper data prepara- tion, or in inappropriately used algorithms, not necessarily in the models themselves.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:412165 |
| Date | January 2020 |
| Creators | Čermáková, Jolana |
| Contributors | Krištoufek, Ladislav, Geršl, Adam |
| Source Sets | Czech ETDs |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
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