An ensemble-based model for two-class imbalanced financial problem

Economic Modelling

Volumn 37, Issue , 2014, Pages 175-183

  Liao, Jui Jung ^a   Shih, Ching Hui ^b   Chen, Tai Feng ^c   Hsu, Ming Fu ^c  

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ASIA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CHI NAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Artificial neural network; Decision making; Ensemble learning; Imbalance class; Knowledge extraction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889638990     PISSN: 02649993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2013.11.013     Document Type: Article

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