Discovering stock trading preferences by self-organizing maps and decision trees

International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 603-611

  Tsai, Chih Fong ^a   Lin, Yuah Chiao ^b   Wang, Yi Ting ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Decision trees; Self organizing maps; Stock characteristics; Trading preferences

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; DECISION TREE MODELS; HIGH PRICE; LOWER FREQUENCIES; NUMBER OF CLUSTERS; PORTFOLIO CHOICE; STOCK CHARACTERISTICS; STOCK TRADING; TRADING PREFERENCES;

COMMERCE; CONFORMAL MAPPING; DECISION TREES; INVESTMENTS;

SELF ORGANIZING MAPS;

EID: 70349279083     PISSN: 02182130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218213009000299     Document Type: Article

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