Diagnosing assets impairment by using random forests model

International Journal of Information Technology and Decision Making

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 77-102

  Chen, Ching Lung ^a   Wu, Chei Wei ^b  

^a NATIONAL YUNLIN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b CHAOYANG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Assets impairment; diagnosis; logit regression; random forests

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863151912     PISSN: 02196220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0219622012500046     Document Type: Article

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