A comparative study of classifier ensembles for bankruptcy prediction

Applied Soft Computing Journal

Volumn 24, Issue , 2014, Pages 977-984

  Tsai, Chih Fong ^a   Hsu, Yu Feng ^b   Yen, David C ^c  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Bankruptcy prediction; Classifier ensembles; Credit scoring; Data mining; Machine learning

Indexed keywords

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

BANKRUPTCY PREDICTION; CLASSIFIER ENSEMBLES; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; CREDIT SCORING;

DATA MINING;

EID: 84908455123     PISSN: 15684946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asoc.2014.08.047     Document Type: Article

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