Neural network forecasting of quarterly accounting earnings

International Journal of Forecasting

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 475-482

  Callen, Jeffrey L ^a   Kwan, Clarence C Y ^b   Yip, Patrick C Y ^c   Yuan, Yufei ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Artificial neural networks; Comparative forecast performance; Quarterly earnings

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030527298     PISSN: 01692070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-2070(96)00706-6     Document Type: Article

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