A neural network approach for analyzing small business lending decisions

Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 259-276

  Wu, Chunchi ^a,b   Wang, Xu Ming ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Credit risk; Discriminant function; Neurons; Sigmoid function

Indexed keywords

EID: 27744530025     PISSN: 0924865X     EISSN: 15737179     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008324023422     Document Type: Article

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