The accuracy of a procedural approach to specifying feedforward neural networks for forecasting

Computers and Operations Research

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 2151-2169

  Liao, Kua Ping ^a   Fildes, Robert ^b  

^a KUN SHAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Backpropagation; Comparative forecasting accuracy; Model specification; Neural networks

Indexed keywords

BACKPROPAGATION; BENCHMARKING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; FORECASTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

COMPARATIVE FORECASTING ACCURACY; LEARNING RATES; MODEL SPECIFICATIONS; TIME SERIES FORECASTING;

FEEDFORWARD NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 10644282144     PISSN: 03050548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cor.2004.02.006     Document Type: Article

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