Company failure prediction in the construction industry

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 40, Issue 16, 2013, Pages 6253-6257

  Horta, I M ^a   Camanho, A S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Company failure; Construction industry; Logistic regression; Support vector machine

Indexed keywords

CLASS DISTRIBUTIONS; CONSTRUCTION COMPANIES; FAILURE PREDICTION; LOGISTIC REGRESSIONS; OVER SAMPLING; RANDOM UNDER SAMPLINGS; SAMPLING METHOD; STRATEGIC VARIABLES;

FORECASTING; LOGISTICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY;

EID: 84879466018     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2013.05.045     Document Type: Article

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