A Novel Approach for Reducing Attributes and Its Application to Small Enterprise Financing Ability Evaluation

Table 1

Financing ability evaluation attribute data of 713 small enterprises.

No.	Criterion layer	Attribute	Attribute types	Original data			Standard data			Reduction results
				Enterprise 1	⋯	Enterprise 713	Enterprise 1	⋯	Enterprise 713
1	enterprise basic situation	the education background of enterprise legal person	Qualitative	1.000	⋯	1.000	1.000	⋯	1.000	Reserve
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11		the number of contract breaches between enterprises	Qualitative	1.000	⋯	1.000	1.000	⋯	1.000	Delete by correlation analysis
12	debt paying ability	asset liability ratio	Negative	0.501	⋯	0.463	0.474	⋯	0.513	Delete by test significance discrimination
...		⋯	⋯	⋯	⋯	⋯	⋯	⋯	⋯	⋯
32		the ratio of EBITDA and total debt	Positive	0.084	⋯	−0.115	0.488	⋯	0.485	Delete by correlation analysis
33	enterprise profitability	net assets income rate	Positive	0.085	⋯	−0.097	0.495	⋯	0.440	Delete by test significance discrimination
...		⋯	⋯	⋯	⋯	⋯	⋯	⋯	⋯	⋯
44		net cash flow from operating activities	Positive	0.000	⋯	−2404133.970	0.503	⋯	0.492	Delete by test significance discrimination
45	operation ability	Accounts receivable turnover speed	Positive	4.450	⋯	45.060	0.469	⋯	0.519	Delete by test significance discrimination
...		⋯	⋯	⋯	⋯	⋯	⋯	⋯	⋯	⋯
54		cash cycle	Positive	3.386	⋯	23.695	0.502	⋯	0.507	Delete by correlation analysis
55	development potential	business revenue growth rate	Positive	−0.540	⋯	0.030	0.463	⋯	0.483	Delete by test significance discrimination
...		⋯	⋯	⋯	⋯	⋯	⋯	⋯	⋯	⋯
63		brand product level	Qualitative	0.000	⋯	0.750	0.000	⋯	0.750	Reserve
64	enterprise external macro conditions	industry cycle index	Positive	123.200	⋯	135.300	0.578	⋯	0.700	Reserve
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69		Engel coefficient	Negative	44.000	⋯	37.000	0.450	⋯	0.755	Delete by test significance discrimination