Identifying winners of competitive events: A SVM-based classification model for horserace prediction

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 196, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 569-577

  Lessmann, Stefan ^a   Sung, Ming Chien ^b   Johnson, Johnnie E V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Decision analysis; Finance; Forecasting; Horseracing; Support vector machines

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; DECISION THEORY; FORECASTING; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VECTORS;

CLASSIFICATION MODELS; DECISION ANALYSIS; EMPIRICAL EVIDENCES; HORSERACING; MARGINAL CONTRIBUTIONS; REGRESSION MODELS;

SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

EID: 58149218295     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2008.03.018     Document Type: Article

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