Prediction of hotel bankruptcy using support vector machine, artificial neural network, logistic regression, and multivariate discriminant analysis

Service Industries Journal

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 441-468

  Kim, Soo Y ^a  

^a Sejong Cyber University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Artificial neural network; Hotel bankruptcy prediction; Multivariate discriminant analysis; Relative error costs; Support vector machine

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; LEISURE INDUSTRY; MARKET CONDITIONS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 78751631705     PISSN: 02642069     EISSN: 17439507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02642060802712848     Document Type: Article

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