N.E.W.S.: A model for the evaluation of non-life insurance companies

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 98, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 419-430

  Kramer, Bert ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b ORTEC The Netherlands   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Expert systems; Multivariate statistics; Neural networks; Risk analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038966940     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-2217(97)00357-3     Document Type: Article

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