AdaBoost ensemble for financial distress prediction: An empirical comparison with data from Chinese listed companies

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 9305-9312

  Sun, Jie ^a   Jia, Ming Yue ^a   Li, Hui ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

AdaBoost ensemble; Decision tree; Financial distress prediction; Single attribute test; Support vector machine

Indexed keywords

ADABOOST; ADABOOST ALGORITHM; CHINESE LISTED COMPANIES; CLASSIFIER ENSEMBLE METHODS; CLASSIFIER ENSEMBLES; EMPIRICAL COMPARISON; ENSEMBLE METHODS; FINANCIAL DISTRESS PREDICTION; FINANCIAL RATIOS; MULTIPLE CLASSIFIERS; SINGLE ATTRIBUTE TEST; SVM CLASSIFIERS; WEAK LEARNER;

ALGORITHMS; DECISION TREES; FINANCE; FORECASTING; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

ADAPTIVE BOOSTING;

EID: 79953722212     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2011.01.042     Document Type: Article

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