Bankruptcy forecasting: An empirical comparison of AdaBoost and neural networks

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 110-122

  Alfaro, Esteban ^a   García, Noelia ^a   Gámez, Matías ^a   Elizondo, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

^b DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

AdaBoost; Corporate Failure Prediction; Neural Network

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS;

ADABOOST; CORPORATE FAILURE PREDICTION;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 41149115573     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2007.12.002     Document Type: Article

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