Neural networks and genetic algorithms for bankruptcy predictions

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 11, Issue 4 SPEC. ISS., 1996, Pages 407-413

  Back, Barbro ^a   Laitinen, Teija ^b   Sere, Kaisa ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VAASA   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKPROPAGATION; FINANCE; FINANCIAL DATA PROCESSING; FORECASTING; GENETIC ALGORITHMS;

BANKRUPTCY; LINEAR DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; LOGISTICAL CUMULATIVE FUNCTION; LOGIT ANALYSIS;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 0030407801     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0957-4174(96)00055-3     Document Type: Article

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