Research And Application Of Financial Data Mining Based On Gray System Theory

Data mining is one of the research fields that are developing fast recently. It includes many subjects such as mathematics, statistics, databases, pattern recognition, artificial intelligence, optimization etc. With the development of the society, people are not satisfied with the ordinary processing about data and hope to get something deep, undiscovered and valuable information from data by some way. So, data mining emerges as the times require and develops gradually.The focus of this thesis is to put forward the methods based on gray system theory for data mining and to mine the financial data of the companies in the Chinese stock market along with the knowledge of financial analysis. We give some examples and obtain some results from them by using the methods. And the methods are performed in computer.Chapter 1: here we give an overall statement of data mining, including introduction of the basic concept, the methods and research branches up to the present etc.Chapter 2: before explaining the mining methods, we introduce the basic concept and methods for financial statement analysis, explicate the formulae and the meanings of financial ratios which are mentioned in the financial ratio analysis. Allowing for the advantages of data mining, we also discuss some other methods that can be applied to mine financial data.Chapter 3: after giving some related concept of gray system theory, we put forward the methods of the Growth Rate Mining and the Development Situation Mining to evaluate the companies' growth and development in some aspects. Then we carry out the gray association and the gray clustering on financial data to get knowledge about the association relations between financial variables and the clustering results among them.Chapter 4: The chapter mainly introduces how the mining system is implemented in software.Chapter 5: a conclusion about this thesis is made and the future expectation of data mining is discussed.