期刊名称：International Journal of Digital Accounting Research
印刷版ISSN：1577-8517
出版年度：2002
卷号：2
页码：131-155
出版社：University of Huelva, Rutgers University
摘要：A comparative analysis of the performance of some well-known classification techniques (Discriminant Analysis, Quinlan’s See5, and Neural Networks) and certain machine learning systems of recent development (ARNI, FAN and SVM) is conducted. The chosen classification task is the forecasting of the level of efficiency of Spanish commercial and industrial companies. Assignment of the firms is made upon the basis of a set of financial ratios, which make a high dimension feature space with low separability degree. In the present research the effects on the accuracy of variations of each technique in the estimation sample size are measured. The main results suggest that ARNI and See5 yield the best results, even with small sample sizes.
