Selecting Bankruptcy Predictors Using a Support Vector Machine Approach

  • Authors:
  • Alan Fan

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • IJCNN '00 Proceedings of the IEEE-INNS-ENNS International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN'00)-Volume 6 - Volume 6
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

Conventional Neural Network approach has been found useful in predicting corporate distress from financial statements. In this paper, we have adopted a Support Vector Machine approach to the problem. A new way of selecting bankruptcy predictors is shown, using the Euclidean distance based criterion calculated within the SVM kernel. A comparative study is pro vided using three classical corporate distress models and an alternative model based on the SVM approach.