A selective ensemble based on expected probabilities for bankruptcy prediction

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 36, Issue 3 PART 1, 2009, Pages 5297-5303

  Hung, Chihli ^a   Chen, Jing Hong ^a  

^a CHUNG YUAN CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Bankruptcy prediction; Classifier ensembles; Selective ensembles

Indexed keywords

BACKPROPAGATION; DECISION TREES; NEURAL NETWORKS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TECHNIQUES; BACK PROPAGATION NEURAL NETWORKS; BANKRUPTCY PREDICTION; CLASSIFICATION TECHNIQUE; CLASSIFIER ENSEMBLES; PREDICTION PERFORMANCE; SELECTIVE ENSEMBLES; STATISTICAL APPROACH;

FORECASTING;

EID: 58349100252     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2008.06.068     Document Type: Article

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