Majority voting combination of multiple case-based reasoning for financial distress prediction

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 36, Issue 3 PART 1, 2009, Pages 4363-4373

  Li, Hui ^a   Sun, Jie ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Chinese listed company; Financial distress prediction; Majority voting; Multiple case based reasoning

Indexed keywords

FINANCE; FORECASTING; HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CASE BASED REASONING SYSTEMS; CASEBASED REASONINGS (CBR); CHINESE LISTED COMPANIES; FINANCIAL DISTRESS PREDICTION; LEAVE-ONE-OUT CROSS VALIDATIONS; MAJORITY VOTING; PREDICTIVE PERFORMANCE; SHENZHEN STOCK EXCHANGES;

CASE BASED REASONING;

EID: 58349092749     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2008.05.019     Document Type: Article

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