The effect of feature selection on financial distress prediction

Knowledge-Based Systems

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 289-297

  Liang, Deron ^a   Tsai, Chih Fong ^a   Wu, Hsin Ting ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Bankruptcy prediction; Credit scoring; Data mining; Feature selection; Financial distress prediction

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DATA MINING; FILTRATION; FINANCE; FORECASTING; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION; PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS;

BANKRUPTCY PREDICTION; CLASSIFICATION TECHNIQUE; CREDIT SCORING; FEATURE SELECTION METHODS; FINANCIAL DISTRESS PREDICTION; MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES; PREDICTION PERFORMANCE; WRAPPER-BASED FEATURE SELECTION;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 84922766449     PISSN: 09507051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.knosys.2014.10.010     Document Type: Article

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