Predicting corporate bankruptcy using a self-organizing map: An empirical study to improve the forecasting horizon of a financial failure model

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 701-711

  Du Jardin, Philippe ^a   Séverin, Eric ^b  

^a EDHEC BUSINESS SCHOOL   (France)

^b UNIV LILLE   (France)

Author keywords

Financial failure prediction; Forecasting horizon; Self organizing map

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL STUDIES; FINANCIAL FAILURE; GENERALIZATION ERROR; KOHONEN MAP; LOGISTIC REGRESSIONS; MODEL RELIABILITY; PREDICTION HORIZON; PREDICTION MODEL; SELF ORGANIZING; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

CONFORMAL MAPPING; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS;

FORECASTING;

EID: 79955921715     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2011.04.001     Document Type: Article

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