“…The applications can be found in, just to name a few, stock index forecasting (Rhee, 1994;Qi, 1999;Qi and Maddala, 1999), bankruptcy forecasting (Altman et al, 1994;Wilson and Sharda, 1994;Sharda and Wilson, 1996;Kerling, 1996;Lee et al, 1996;Jo et al, 1997;Davalos et al, 1999;Atiya, 2001), bonds rating (Dutta and Shekhar, 1988;Moody and Utans, 1991;Surkan and Singleton, 1991;Kim et al, 1993), mortgage risk assessing (Collins et al, 1988;Reilly et al, 1991;Grudnitski et al, 1995) and auditing (Anandarajan and Anandarajan, 1999;Koh and Tan, 1999;Etheridge et al, 2000;Feroz et al, 2000;Koskivaara, 2000;Calderon and Cheh, 2002).…”