Bankruptcy forecasting: A hybrid approach using fuzzy c-means clustering and multivariate adaptive regression splines (MARS)

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1866-1875

  De Andrés, Javier ^a   Lorca, Pedro ^a   De Cos Juez, Francisco Javier ^a   Sánchez Lasheras, Fernando ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

^b Tecniproject Ltd   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bankruptcy forecasting; Clusters; Financial information; Fuzzy; Hybrid; MARS

Indexed keywords

BANKRUPTCY FORECASTING; CLUSTERS; FINANCIAL INFORMATION; FUZZY; HYBRID; MARS;

DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FINANCE; FUZZY CLUSTERING; FUZZY SYSTEMS; HYBRID SYSTEMS; INDUSTRY; NEURAL NETWORKS; PROFITABILITY;

FORECASTING;

EID: 78049531014     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2010.07.117     Document Type: Article

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