Keywords and phrases: credit rating, artificial intelligence techniques, machine learning, accounting variables.
Received: October 7, 2023; Revised: November 16, 2023; Accepted: November 29, 2023
How to cite this article: Dalia Adel Abbas Al-Sayed, Wael Abdel Qader Awad and Mohamed Talaat Mohamed Salem, A comparative study of forecasting corporate credit ratings using artificial neural networks, support vector machine, random forest, the Naive Bayes, decision tree and K-nearest neighbor, Advances and Applications in Statistics 91(2) (2024), 125-139. http://dx.doi.org/10.17654/0972361724010
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