Feature selection and fuzzy rule-based classifier applied to bankruptcy prediction in banks

International Journal of Information and Decision Sciences

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 343-365

  Chandra, Devulapalli Karthik ^a   Ravi, Vadlamani ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENT AND RESEARCH IN BANKING TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

bankruptcy prediction; feature selection; FRBC; fuzzy rule based classifier; modified threshold accepting algorithm; MTA; rule generation; wavelet neural network; WNN

Indexed keywords

EID: 75149143172     PISSN: 17567017     EISSN: 17567025     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJIDS.2009.027756     Document Type: Article

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