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Härdle, W., Moro, R., Schäfer, D. (2005). Predicting Bankruptcy with Support Vector Machines. In: Statistical Tools for Finance and Insurance. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-27395-6_10

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