Title
An improved boosting based on feature selection for corporate bankruptcy prediction
Abstract
With the recent financial crisis and European debt crisis, corporate bankruptcy prediction has become an increasingly important issue for financial institutions. Many statistical and intelligent methods have been proposed, however, there is no overall best method has been used in predicting corporate bankruptcy. Recent studies suggest ensemble learning methods may have potential applicability in corporate bankruptcy prediction. In this paper, a new and improved Boosting, FS-Boosting, is proposed to predict corporate bankruptcy. Through injecting feature selection strategy into Boosting, FS-Booting can get better performance as base learners in FS-Boosting could get more accuracy and diversity. For the testing and illustration purposes, two real world bankruptcy datasets were selected to demonstrate the effectiveness and feasibility of FS-Boosting. Experimental results reveal that FS-Boosting could be used as an alternative method for the corporate bankruptcy prediction.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1016/j.eswa.2013.09.033
Expert Syst. Appl.
Keywords
Field
DocType
feature selection,financial institution,improved boosting,corporate bankruptcy prediction,intelligent method,corporate bankruptcy,alternative method,european debt crisis,overall best method,real world bankruptcy datasets,recent financial crisis,ensemble learning,boosting
Data mining,Actuarial science,Feature selection,Computer science,Financial crisis,European debt crisis,Bankruptcy prediction,Boosting (machine learning),Bankruptcy,Ensemble learning
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
41
5
0957-4174
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
9
0.46
33
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Gang Wang12007.20
Jian Ma21662103.00
Shanlin Yang378760.80