Predicting business failure using an RSF-based case-based reasoning ensemble forecasting method

Journal of Forecasting

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 180-192

  Li, Hui ^a   Sun, Jie ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

business failure prediction (BFP); case based reasoning ensemble; hotel failure; nearest neighbor ensemble; random similarity functions (RSF)

Indexed keywords

DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FORECASTING; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS;

BUSINESS FAILURE PREDICTION; CASE-BASED REASONING ENSEMBLE; CASEBASED REASONINGS (CBR); ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; HOTEL FAILURE; NEAR NEIGHBOR ENSEMBLE; NEAREST-NEIGHBOUR; RANDOM SIMILARITY FUNCTION; SIMILARITY FUNCTIONS;

CASE BASED REASONING;

EID: 84873080508     PISSN: 02776693     EISSN: 1099131X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/for.1265     Document Type: Article

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