A link mining algorithm for earnings forecast and trading

Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 419-445

  Creamer, Germán ^a   Stolfo, Sal ^a,b  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b CENTRUM CATÓLICA GRADUATE BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Peru)

Author keywords

Computational finance; Data mining applications; Link mining; Machine learning; Social network; Trading strategies

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FINANCE; DATA MINING APPLICATIONS; LINK MINING; MACHINE LEARNING; SOCIAL NETWORK; TRADING STRATEGIES;

APPLICATIONS; AUTOMATA THEORY; COMMERCE; DATA MINING; ELECTRONIC MAIL; FINANCE; FORECASTING; GAME THEORY; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; MANAGERS; MINING; ROBOT LEARNING;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 65049084055     PISSN: 13845810     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10618-008-0124-z     Document Type: Article

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