Variable selection using neural-network models

Neurocomputing

Volumn 31, Issue 1-4, 2000, Pages 1-13

  Castellano, Giovanna ^a   Fanelli, Anna Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Least squares methods; Neural network pruning; Principal component analysis; Variable selection

Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS (PCA); VARIABLE SELECTION;

PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; COMPUTER MODEL; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

EID: 0034061686     PISSN: 09252312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-2312(99)00146-0     Document Type: Article

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