Municipal credit rating modelling by neural networks

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 108-118

  Hájek, Petr ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARDUBICE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Credit rating analysis; Municipal credit rating; Neural networks; Support vector machines

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY RATE; CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; CREDIT RATING ANALYSIS; CREDIT RATINGS; DATA PREPROCESSING; FINANCIAL STATEMENTS; IN-LINE; INPUT VARIABLES; MUNICIPAL CREDIT RATING; RATING AGENCIES; REAL-WORLD PROBLEM; SELECTION PROCESS; STATISTICAL REPORT;

DATA HANDLING; NEURAL NETWORKS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

RATING;

EID: 79951518013     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2010.11.033     Document Type: Article

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