Towards the prediction of business failure via computational intelligence techniques

Expert Systems

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 209-226

  Divsalar, Mehdi ^a   Firouzabadi, Ali Khatami ^a   Sadeghi, Meisam ^b   Behrooz, Amir Hossein ^a   Alavi, Amir Hossein ^b  

^a ALLAMEH TABATABA'I UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b IRAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

bankruptcy prediction; financial ratios; linear genetic programming; radial basis function

Indexed keywords

BANKRUPTCY PREDICTION; BUSINESS FAILURE; CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE TECHNIQUES; FINANCIAL RATIOS; LINEAR GENETIC PROGRAMMING; LITERATURE REVIEWS; PREDICTION PERFORMANCE; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION NEURAL NETWORKS; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTIONS; REGRESSION MODEL; REGRESSION-BASED MODEL; SEQUENTIAL FEATURE SELECTIONS;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; GENETIC PROGRAMMING; NEURAL NETWORKS; PLANT SHUTDOWNS; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION NETWORKS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

FORECASTING;

EID: 79960229286     PISSN: 02664720     EISSN: 14680394     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0394.2011.00580.x     Document Type: Review

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