Table 5

Zmijewski’s model descriptive statistics

PredictorROAFINLLIQ
CompanyNon-B.BankruptNon-B.BankruptNon-B.Bankrupt
Median0.034−0.0550.5450.9561.7680.905
Mean0.045**−0.185**0.546**1.250**2.9921.208**
 (0.001)(0.027)(0.003)(0.056)(3.354)(0.122)
F-test0.0000.0000.000
t-test0.0000.0000.000

Note(s): Non-B. means non-bankrupt companies. Bankrupt means bankrupt companies. ROA is Net Income/Total Assets, FINL is Total Debt/Total Assets, and LIQ is Current Assets/Current Liabilities. Standard errors in parentheses. ** represents statistical significance at the 1% level, indicating whether the means differ significantly from zero. The F-test is the p-value of the equality of variances test, used to determine which t-test should be used. The t-test is the p-value of the two-tailed equality test of the means with unequal variance, applied to test whether the Non-Bankrupt and Bankrupt samples have different means

Source(s): Authors’ own elaboration

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