Neural network forecasting of the British pound/US dollar exchange rate

Omega

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 495-506

  Zhang, Gioqinang ^a   Hu, Michael Y ^b  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Foreign exchange rate; Neural networks; Time series forecasting

Indexed keywords

FINANCE; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; NEURAL NETWORKS;

EXCHANGE RATE FORECASTING; EXCHANGE RATES; FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES; HIDDEN NODES; INPUT NODE; NEURAL-NETWORKS; PERFORMANCE; SIMPLE++; TIME SERIES FORECASTING; US DOLLAR;

FORECASTING;

EID: 0032133950     PISSN: 03050483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-0483(98)00003-6     Document Type: Article

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