Machine learning in financial crisis prediction: A survey

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part C: Applications and Reviews

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 421-436

  Lin, Wei Yang ^a   Hu, Ya Han ^a   Tsai, Chih Fong ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Bankruptcy prediction; credit scoring; ensemble classifiers; hybrid classifiers; machine learning

Indexed keywords

BANKRUPTCY PREDICTION; BUSINESS FAILURE; CLASSIFIER DESIGN; CREDIT RISKS; CREDIT SCORING; DATA SETS; ENSEMBLE CLASSIFIERS; EXPERIMENTAL FACTORS; FINANCIAL CRISIS; FINANCIAL INSTITUTION; HYBRID CLASSIFIER; JOURNAL PAPER; MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES; RESEARCH PROBLEMS;

DECISION TREES; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; PLANT SHUTDOWNS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

FORECASTING;

EID: 84862562690     PISSN: 10946977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCC.2011.2170420     Document Type: Review

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