A note on takeover success prediction

International Review of Financial Analysis

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1186-1193

  Branch, Ben ^a   Wang, Jia ^b   Yang, Taewon ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b ROWAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial neural network; Logistic regression; Takeover success prediction

Indexed keywords

EID: 54849413585     PISSN: 10575219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.irfa.2007.07.003     Document Type: Article

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