Confidence intervals for controlling the probability of bankruptcy

Omega

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 555-565

  Barniv, Ran ^b   Mehrez, Abraham ^a   Kline, Douglas M ^b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bankruptcy; Confidence intervals; Financial accounting ratios; Logit modeling; Optimal ratios

Indexed keywords

FINANCE;

BANKRUPTCY; CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; CLASSIFICATION TECHNIQUE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING; FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING RATIOS; LOGIT MODELS; LOW BOUND; OPTIMAL RATIO; UPPER BOUND;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 0034288752     PISSN: 03050483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-0483(99)00073-0     Document Type: Article

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