Modelling municipal rating by unsupervised methods

WSEAS Transactions on Systems

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1679-1686

  Olej, Vladimír ^a   Hájek, Petr ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARDUBICE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Cluster analysis; Credit risk; Fuzzy cluster analysis; K means algorithm; Kohonen's self organizing feature maps; Neural networks; Rating; Unsupervised learning

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; SELF ORGANIZING MAPS;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CREDIT RISK; FUZZY CLUSTER ANALYSIS; K-MEANS ALGORITHM; UNSUPERVISED LEARNING;

FUZZY CONTROL;

EID: 33746402772     PISSN: 11092777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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