Forecasting business failure: The use of nearest-neighbour support vectors and correcting imbalanced samples - Evidence from the Chinese hotel industry

Tourism Management

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 622-634

  Li, Hui ^a,b   Sun, Jie ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Bagging ensemble; Firm failure prediction; Nearest neighbour support vector machine; Tourism imbalanced dataset; Tourism risk forecasting

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS; DATA SET; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FORECASTING METHOD; NEAREST NEIGHBOR ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SERVICE SECTOR; TOURISM MANAGEMENT;

CHINA;

EID: 84455191888     PISSN: None     EISSN: 02615177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2011.07.004     Document Type: Article

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