Prediction intervals for neural networks via nonlinear regression

Technometrics

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 273-282

  De Veaux, Richard D ^a   Schumi, Jennifer ^b   Schweinsberg, Jason ^c   Ungar, Lyle H ^d  

^a WILLIAMS COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Department of Statistics Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence Iowa State University 2438 Osborn Dr Ames   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Backpropagation; High dimensional data; Nonparametric regression; Smoothing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BACKPROPAGATION; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

NONLINEAR REGRESSION;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 0032202770     PISSN: 00401706     EISSN: 15372723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00401706.1998.10485556     Document Type: Article

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