Title
Bankruptcy analysis with self-organizing maps in learning metrics
Abstract
We introduce a method for deriving a metric, locally based on the Fisher information matrix, into the data space. A self-organizing map (SOM) is computed in the new metric to explore financial statements of enterprises. The metric measures local distances in terms of changes in the distribution of an auxiliary random variable that reflects what is important in the data. In this paper the variable indicates bankruptcy within the next few years. The conditional density of the auxiliary variable is first estimated, and the change in the estimate resulting from local displacements in the primary data space is measured using the Fisher information matrix. When a self-organizing map is computed in the new metric it still visualizes the data space in a topology-preserving fashion, but represents the (local) directions in which the probability of bankruptcy changes the most.
Year
DOI
Venue
2001
10.1109/72.935102
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks
Keywords
Field
DocType
corporate modelling,learning (artificial intelligence),self-organising feature maps,Fisher information matrix,SOM,auxiliary random variable distribution,auxiliary variable,bankruptcy analysis,conditional density,financial statements,learning metrics,self-organizing maps,topology-preserving data-space visualization
Data mining,Fisher information metric,Random variable,Conditional probability distribution,Computer science,Intrinsic metric,Self-organizing map,Fisher information,Artificial intelligence,Bankruptcy,Statistical manifold,Machine learning
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
12
4
1045-9227
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
71
5.05
13
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Samuel Kaski12755245.52
Janne Sinkkonen223121.36
Jaakko Peltonen3756.17