Predicting the success of nations at the Summer Olympics using neural networks

Computers and Operations Research

Volumn 26, Issue 13, 1999, Pages 1243-1265

  Condon, Edward M ^a   Golden, Bruce L ^b   Wasil, Edward A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial neural networks (ANNs); Data analysis; Ordinary least squares (OLS) regression; Summer Olympics; Weighted least squares (WLS) regression

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

LINEAR REGRESSION MODELS;

OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; METHODOLOGY; RECREATIONAL ACTIVITY;

EID: 0033230386     PISSN: 03050548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-0548(99)00003-9     Document Type: Article

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