An improved boosting based on feature selection for corporate bankruptcy prediction

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 2353-2361

  Wang, Gang ^a,b,c   Ma, Jian ^c   Yang, Shanlin ^a,b  

^a HEFEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Boosting; Corporate bankruptcy prediction; Ensemble learning; Feature selection

Indexed keywords

BANKRUPTCY PREDICTION; BETTER PERFORMANCE; BOOSTING; ENSEMBLE LEARNING; EUROPEAN DEBT CRISIS; FINANCIAL CRISIS; FINANCIAL INSTITUTION; INTELLIGENT METHOD;

FEATURE EXTRACTION; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

FORECASTING;

EID: 84890117005     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2013.09.033     Document Type: Article

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