Comparison of Support Vector Machine and Back Propagation Neural Network in Evaluating the Enterprise Financial Distress

Recently, applying the novel data mining techniques for evaluating enterprise financial distress hasreceived much research alternation. Support Vector Machine (SVM) and back propagation neural (BPN) network has been applied successfully in many areas with excellent generalization results, such as ruleextraction, classification and evaluation. In this paper, a model based on SVM with Gaussian RBFkernel is proposed here for enterprise financial distress evaluation. BPN network is considered one ofthe simplest and are most general methods used for supervised training of multilayered neural network. The comparative results show that through the difference between the performance measures is marginal; SVM gives higher precision and lower error rates