Risk score. Logistic regression. Bayesian inference. Prior information.
The aim of this work was to propose a bayesian credit risk model for classifying customers in terms of their default risk. The differential of the proposed methodology is the possibility of incorporating a priori information in the customer classification process and not just in the estimation of the customers’ evaluation parameters. The main advantage of this procedure is due to the simplicity in incorporating the expert’s opinion in the classification process, something that does not occur in traditional bayesian modeling, whose a priori information falls on the parameters of the models, which are usually abstract quantities and/or associated with covariates with multicollinearity problems. To illustrate the proposed methodology, a dataset in the literature was used and the results obtained showed that the model is useful for classifying customers in terms of their probability of default.