Hybrid support vector machine rule extraction method for discovering the preferences of stock market investors: Evidence from Montenegro

Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 503-522

  Kašćelan, Ljiljana ^a   Kašćelan, Vladimir ^a   Jovanović, Miomir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTENEGRO   (Montenegro)

Author keywords

Decision trees; Rule extraction; Stock trading preferences; Support vector machine

Indexed keywords

EID: 84938546914     PISSN: 10798587     EISSN: 2326005X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10798587.2014.971500     Document Type: Article

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