Improving experimental studies about ensembles of classifiers for bankruptcy prediction and credit scoring

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 3825-3830

  Abellán, Joaquín ^a   Mantas, Carlos J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bankruptcy prediction; Credit scoring; Decision trees; Ensembles of classifiers; Imprecise Dirichlet model

Indexed keywords

BANKRUPTCY PREDICTION; COMBINATION OF CLASSIFIERS; CREDIT SCORING; ENSEMBLE METHODS; ENSEMBLES OF CLASSIFIERS; IMPRECISE DIRICHLET MODEL; RANDOM SUBSPACE METHOD;

FORECASTING; FORESTRY;

DECISION TREES;

CLASSIFICATION; DECISION MAKING; FORESTRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 84891873347     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2013.12.003     Document Type: Article

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