Mortgage default: Classification trees analysis

Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 369-396

  Feldman, David ^a   Gross, Shulamith ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification and Regression Trees; Misclassification error; Mortgage default

Indexed keywords

EID: 18744416618     PISSN: 08955638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11146-005-7013-7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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