Prediction of financial information manipulation by using support vector machine and probabilistic neural network

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 36, Issue 3 PART 1, 2009, Pages 5419-5423

  Öǧüt, Hulisi ^a   Aktaş, Ramazan ^a   Alp, Ali ^a   Doǧanay, M Mete ^b  

^a TOBB UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND TECHNOLOGY   (Turkey)

^b CANKAYA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Financial information manipulation; Probabilistic neural network; Support vector machine

Indexed keywords

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FINANCE; FORECASTING; INFORMATION USE; NEURAL NETWORKS;

CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; EXPLANATORY VARIABLES; FINANCIAL INFORMATION; FINANCIAL RATIOS; FINANCIAL STATEMENTS; LOGISTICS REGRESSIONS; PROBABILISTIC NEURAL NETWORKS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

EID: 58349094308     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2008.06.055     Document Type: Article

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