Machine learning models and bankruptcy prediction

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 83, Issue , 2017, Pages 405-417

  Barboza, Flavio ^a   Kimura, Herbert ^b   Altman, Edward ^c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF UBERLÂNDIA   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bagging; Bankruptcy prediction; Boosting; Machine learning; Random forest; Support vector machines

Indexed keywords

EID: 85019113920     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2017.04.006     Document Type: Article

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