A genetic-based hybrid approach to corporate failure prediction

International Journal of Electronic Finance

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 241-255

  Lin, Ping Chen ^a   Chen, Jiah Shing ^b  

^a NATIONAL KAOHSIUNG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Corporate failure; Discriminant analysis; E finance; GA; Genetic Algorithm; Logistic regression; Neural network

Indexed keywords

EID: 53349156774     PISSN: 17460069     EISSN: 17460077     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJEF.2008.017543     Document Type: Article

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