Bankruptcy prediction for Japanese firms: Using Multiple Criteria Linear Programming data mining approach

International Journal of Business Intelligence and Data Mining

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 401-416

  Kwak, Wikil ^a   Shi, Yong ^a,b   Eldridge, Susan W ^a   Kou, Gang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA   (United States)

^b The Chinese Acedemy of Science Research Center on Data Technology and Knowledge Economy   (China)

Author keywords

Bankruptcy; Data mining; Japan; Multiple Criteria Linear Programming (MCLP)

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750970557     PISSN: 17438187     EISSN: 17438195     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJBIDM.2006.010782     Document Type: Article

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