Financial distress prediction based on serial combination of multiple classifiers

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 8659-8666

  Sun, Jie ^a   Li, Hui ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Financial distress prediction; Multiple classifiers; Serial combination

Indexed keywords

COMBINATORIAL SWITCHING; FINANCE; LEARNING SYSTEMS; OBJECT RECOGNITION;

BASE CLASSIFIERS; COMBINATION METHODS; COMBINATION OF MULTIPLE CLASSIFIERS; COMBINATION SYSTEMS; COMPLEMENTATION; CORPORATE FINANCES; FINANCIAL DISTRESS; FINANCIAL DISTRESS PREDICTION; MULTIPLE CLASSIFIERS; SELECTION MECHANISMS; SERIAL COMBINATION;

CLASSIFIERS;

EID: 60249097469     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2008.10.002     Document Type: Article

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