Predicting financial distress and corporate failure: A review from the state-of-the-art definitions, modeling, sampling, and featuring approaches

Knowledge-Based Systems

Volumn 57, Issue , 2014, Pages 41-56

  Sun, Jie ^a   Li, Hui ^a   Huang, Qing Hua ^a   He, Kai Yu ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Case based reasoning; Corporate failure prediction; Decision tree; Definition of financial distress; Ensemble; Featuring methods; Financial distress prediction; Group decision making; Hybrid modeling; Logistic regression; Multiple discriminant analysis; Neural network; Review; Sampling methods; Support vector machine

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894901583     PISSN: 09507051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.knosys.2013.12.006     Document Type: Article

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