Extraction of rules from artificial neural networks for nonlinear regression

IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 564-577

  Setiono, Rudy ^a,b   Leow, Wee Kheng ^a,b   Zurada, Jacek M ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c University of Louisville   (United States)

Author keywords

Network pruning; Regression; Rule extraction

Indexed keywords

NETWORK PRUNING;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CODES (SYMBOLS); KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION NETWORKS;

EID: 0036565303     PISSN: 10459227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNN.2002.1000125     Document Type: Article

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