Survival Analysis and Financial Distress Prediction: Finnish Evidence

Review of Accounting and Finance

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 76-90

  Laitinen, Erkki K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VAASA   (Finland)

Author keywords

Cox Regression; Financial Distress; Finnish Evidence; Survival Analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993047566     PISSN: 14757702     EISSN: 17587700     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/eb043438     Document Type: Review

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