A clustering method to identify representative financial ratios

Information Sciences

Volumn 178, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1087-1097

  Wang, Yu Jie ^a   Lee, Hsuan Shih ^b  

^a NATIONAL PENGHU UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Clustering; Financial ratios; Fuzzy relation; Representative indicator

Indexed keywords

FINANCE; FUZZY CLUSTERING; INFORMATION ANALYSIS;

FINANCIAL RATIOS; FUZZY RELATION; REPRESENTATIVE INDICATOR;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS;

EID: 36549081981     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2007.09.016     Document Type: Article

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