Bankruptcy Prediction and Financial Information

Bankruptcy is considered one of the most significant threats for many businesses today. Keywords: background and motivation; methodology; dataset; selection of predictor variables; the statistical model; empirical results; descriptive statistics; univariate analysis; the multivariate logistic regression model; validation of the logistic regression model; forecast validation test; Lachenbruch Jackknife method; summary and conclusions

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