An experimental comparison of ensemble of classifiers for bankruptcy prediction and credit scoring

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 36, Issue 2 PART 2, 2009, Pages 3028-3033

  Nanni, Loris ^a   Lumini, Alessandra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bankruptcy prediction; Credit scoring; Ensemble of classifiers

Indexed keywords

NEURAL NETWORKS;

BANKRUPTCY PREDICTION; CREDIT SCORING; ENSEMBLE METHODS; ENSEMBLE OF CLASSIFIERS; EXPERIMENTAL COMPARISON; LEVENBERG-MARQUARDT; MULTI LAYER PERCEPTRON; RANDOM SUBSPACES;

FORECASTING;

EID: 56349112745     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2008.01.018     Document Type: Article

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