A boosting approach for corporate failure prediction

Applied Intelligence

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 29-37

  Cortés, Esteban Alfaro ^a   Martínez, Matías Gámez ^a   Rubio, Noelia García ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Boosting; Corporate failure prediction; Ensemble classifiers

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA PROCESSING; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); FAILURE ANALYSIS; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MANAGEMENT SCIENCE; PROBLEM SOLVING;

BOOSTING; CORPORATE FAILURE PREDICTION; ENSEMBLE CLASSIFIERS; FINANCIAL RATIOS;

INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT;

EID: 34250748375     PISSN: 0924669X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10489-006-0028-9     Document Type: Article

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