Project of statistical methods for data science
The objective of this study is to investigate the risk factors of business failure of Italian Com-panies in the AIDA dataset. In particular, we address 3 business questions regarding differ-ent aspects affecting the forementioned risk that will be explained in 3 different sections. Thefirst two aim to categorize the distributions of different types of companies according to theirstatus (active or failed), their age and size, while the last section aims to classify the status ofcompanies using a set of pre-processed features. The code to produce the results of the threequestions consists of a series of scripts starting with the loading of the aida.RData dataset.