Ensemble with neural networks for bankruptcy prediction

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 3373-3379

  Kim, Myoung Jong ^a   Kang, Dae Ki ^a  

^a Dongseo University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Bagging; Bankruptcy prediction; Boosting; Neural networks

Indexed keywords

BAGGING; BANKRUPTCY PREDICTION; BASE CLASSIFIERS; ECONOMIC IMPACTS; ENSEMBLE METHODS; MACHINE LEARNING PROBLEM; PERFORMANCE MEASURE; PREDICTION MODEL;

DECISION TREES; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 71349086364     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2009.10.012     Document Type: Article

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