Business failure predictions in İstanbul stock exchange

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2009
Tekel, Onur
This study aims to develop business failure prediction models using the data of selected firms from ISE markets. The sample data comprise ten selected financial ratios for 27 non-going concerns (failed businesses) and paired 27 going concerns. Two non-parametric classification methods are used in the study: Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) and Decision Trees. The classification results show that there is equilibrium in the classification of the training samples by the models, but ANN model outperform the decision tree model in the classification of the testing samples. Further, the potential usefulness of ANN and Decision Tree type data mining techniques in the analysis of complex and non-linear relationships are observed.

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O. Tekel, “Business failure predictions in İstanbul stock exchange,” M.B.A. - Master of Business Administration, Middle East Technical University, 2009.