Robust maximum likelihood training of heteroscedastic probabilistic neural networks

Neural Networks

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 739-747

  Yang, Zheng Rong ^a   Chen, Sheng ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bayes classifier; EM algorithm; Gaussian basis functions; Jack knife; Mixture distributions; Parzen windows; Pattern classification; Probabilistic neural networks

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESTIMATION; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NUMERICAL METHODS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

EXPECTATION MAXIMISATION ALGORITHM; GAUSSIAN BASIS FUNCTION; HETEROSCEDASTIC PROBABILISTIC NEURAL NETWORKS;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; LEARNING; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRAINING;

EID: 0032098246     PISSN: 08936080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0893-6080(98)00024-0     Document Type: Article

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