Predicting restaurant financial distress using decision tree and AdaBoosted decision tree models

Economic Modelling

Volumn 36, Issue , 2014, Pages 354-362

  Kim, Soo Y ^a   Upneja, Arun ^b  

^a Sejong Cyber University   (South Korea)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

AdaBoosted decision tree; Decision tree; Financial distress prediction; Prediction accuracy; U.S. restaurant firms

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886437226     PISSN: 02649993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2013.10.005     Document Type: Article

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