Patent Document ID: 8370241
Application ID: 10994832

Base Claim:
1. A computer-assisted method for evaluating a financial credit model, the method comprising: receiving, by a computer device, data describing a financial model, wherein the financial model is a credit model describing a distribution of a first financial variable representing a default probability of a credit instrument, and wherein the computer device comprises a processor and operatively associated memory; processing, by a computer device, the data describing the financial model to represent the financial model in a Bayesian network, wherein the processing comprises: assigning a first financial variable of the financial model to a first node of the Bayesian network, wherein the first financial variable is a random variable associated with a probability distribution that expresses the first financial variable in terms of at least a third financial variable, and wherein the first financial variable represents at least one quantity selected from the group consisting of a default probability of a first credit instrument and a time-to-default of the first credit instrument; assigning a second financial variable of the financial model to a second node of the Bayesian network, wherein the second financial variable is a random variable associated with a probability distribution that expresses the second financial variable in terms of the third financial variable, and wherein the second financial variable represents at least one quantity selected from the group consisting of a default probability of a second credit instrument and a time-to-default of the second credit instrument; assigning the third financial variable of the financial model to a third node of the Bayesian network, wherein the third financial variable is a random variable associated with a probability distribution, wherein the third financial variable is a latent factor variable, wherein the third node is a parent node of the first node and the second node, and the third node enables expression of the first financial variable and the second financial variable as conditionally independent; setting, by the computer device, an evidence value for at least the second financial variable, wherein the evidence value represents at least one quantity selected from the group consisting of equality data and inequality data corresponding to the probability distribution associated with the second financial variable, and in response, inferring a conditional probability distribution function of at least the first financial variable.

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Claim 2:
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the financial model is a copula model for describing the default probability of one or more credit instruments.