Financial distress prediction using support vector machines: Ensemble vs. individual

Applied Soft Computing Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 2254-2265

  Sun, Jie ^a   Li, Hui ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Financial distress prediction; Multiple classifiers; Support vector machine ensemble

Indexed keywords

BASE CLASSIFIERS; COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS; CROSS VALIDATION; DATA SETS; DIVERSITY ANALYSIS; ENSEMBLE METHODS; FEATURE SUBSET; FINANCIAL DISTRESS PREDICTION; INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCE; KERNEL FUNCTION; LOGISTIC REGRESSIONS; MAJORITY VOTING; MULTIPLE CLASSIFIERS; SVM ALGORITHM; SVM CLASSIFIERS; TRAINING DATASET;

ALGORITHMS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FORECASTING; LOGISTICS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION NETWORKS;

SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

EID: 84861845698     PISSN: 15684946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asoc.2012.03.028     Document Type: Article

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