A meta-learning framework for bankruptcy prediction

Journal of Forecasting

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 167-179

  Tsai, Chih Fong ^a   Hsu, Yu Feng ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

bankruptcy prediction; machine learning; meta learning; stacked generalization

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DECISION TREES; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

BANKRUPTCY PREDICTION; CORPORATES; FINANCIAL INSTITUTION; MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES; MACHINE-LEARNING; META-LEARNING FRAMEWORKS; METALEARNING; MULTIPLE-CLASSIFIERS; PREDICTION MODELLING; STACKED GENERALIZATION;

FORECASTING;

EID: 84873092298     PISSN: 02776693     EISSN: 1099131X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/for.1264     Document Type: Article

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