Density estimation and random variate generation using multilayer networks

IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 497-520

  Magdon Ismail, Malik ^a,b   Atiya, Amir ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c Countrywide Capital Markets ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Convergence rate; Density estimation; Distribution function; Estimation error; Multilayer network; Neural network; Random number generation; Stochastic algorithms

Indexed keywords

KERNEL DENSITY ESTIMATORS; RANDOM VARIATE GENERATION;

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DIFFERENTIATION (CALCULUS); RANDOM NUMBER GENERATION;

MULTILAYER NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 0036565037     PISSN: 10459227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNN.2002.1000120     Document Type: Article

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