BULETINUL Universităţii Petrol – Gaze din Ploieşti Vol
LXII No
1/2010 88 - 96 Seria Matematică - Informatică - Fizică Using Principal Component Analysis in Loan Granting Irina Ioniţă, Daniela Ş chiopu Petroleum - Gas University of Ploiesti, Informatics Department, Ploieşti, Romania e-mail: tirinelle@yahoo
com, daniela_schiopu@yahoo
com Abstract This paper describes the utility of Principal Component Analysis (PCA) in the banking domain, more exactly in the consumer lending problem
PCA is a powerful tool for analyzing data of high dimension
When an applicant requests a loan for personal needs, a credit officer collects data from him and makes a scoring
The factors analyzed can be significant as well as insignificant
The principal component analysis can help in this case to extract tho