A genetic programming model for bankruptcy prediction: Empirical evidence from Iran

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 36, Issue 2 PART 2, 2009, Pages 3199-3207

  Etemadi, Hossein ^a   Anvary Rostamy, Ali Asghar ^a   Dehkordi, Hassan Farajzadeh ^a  

^a TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Bankruptcy prediction; Financial ratios; Genetic Programming; Iranian companies; Multiple discriminant analysis

Indexed keywords

DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FORECASTING; GENETIC ALGORITHMS;

BANKRUPTCY PREDICTION; FINANCIAL RATIOS; GENETIC PROGRAMMING MODELING; IRANIAN COMPANIES; MULTIPLE DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; NATURAL SELECTION; TEHRAN STOCK EXCHANGES; TIMELY IDENTIFICATION;

GENETIC PROGRAMMING;

EID: 56749173517     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2008.01.012     Document Type: Article

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