Neural network ensemble strategies for financial decision applications

Computers and Operations Research

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 2543-2559

  West, David ^a   Dellana, Scott ^a   Qian, Jingxia ^a  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bagging; Bankruptcy prediction; Boosting; Credit scoring; Ensembles

Indexed keywords

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; ERROR ANALYSIS; FINANCIAL DATA PROCESSING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PROBABILITY; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

BAGGING; BANKRUPTCY PREDICTION; BOOSTING; CREDIT SCORING; ENSEMBLES;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 13544268431     PISSN: 03050548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cor.2004.03.017     Document Type: Article

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