Data Sample Selection Issues for Bankruptcy Prediction

Risk, Hazards and Crisis in Public Policy

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 91-116

  Tian, Shaonan ^a   Yu, Yan ^b   Zhou, Ming ^a  

^a SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

bankruptcy forecasting; binary classification; logistic regression; neural networks; support vector machines

Indexed keywords

EID: 85010289339     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19444079     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rhc3.12071     Document Type: Article

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