A hybrid approach based on the combination of variable selection using decision trees and case-based reasoning using the Mahalanobis distance: For bankruptcy prediction

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 3482-3488

  Cho, Sungbin ^a   Hong, Hyojung ^a   Ha, Byoung Chun ^a  

^a Sogang University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Bankruptcy prediction; Case based reasoning; Input variable selection; Mahalanobis distance; Variable covariance structure

Indexed keywords

BANKRUPTCY PREDICTION; COVARIANCE STRUCTURES; CREDIT MANAGEMENT; EUCLIDEAN DISTANCE; FINANCIAL RATIOS; HYBRID APPROACH; HYBRID METHOD; INPUT VARIABLE SELECTION; MAHALANOBIS DISTANCES; MODEL PERFORMANCE; NEAREST NEIGHBORS; VARIABLE SELECTION; VARIABLE WEIGHT;

DECISION TREES;

CASE BASED REASONING;

EID: 71349086635     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2009.10.040     Document Type: Article

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