Bond rating using support vector machine

Intelligent Data Analysis

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 285-296

  Cao, Lijuan ^a   Guan, Lim Kian ^b   Jingqing, Zhang ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

feature selection; multi class classification; Support vector machine (SVM)

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); CLASSIFIERS; DIRECTED GRAPHS; FEATURE EXTRACTION;

BOND RATINGS; COMPUSTAT; DIRECTED ACYCLIC GRAPH (DAG); GENERALIZATION PERFORMANCE; MULTI-CLASS CLASSIFICATION; MULTICLASS CLASSIFICATION PROBLEMS; SVM-BASED METHODS;

SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

EID: 84855187905     PISSN: 1088467X     EISSN: 15714128     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/ida-2006-10307     Document Type: Article

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