Automobile seat comfort prediction: Statistical model vs. artificial neural network

Applied Ergonomics

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 275-284

  Kolich, M ^a,b   Seal, N ^a   Taboun, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

^b Johnson Controls Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Automobile seat; Comfort; Neural network

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; FORECASTING; NEURAL NETWORKS; PROCESS CONTROL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

COMFORT; ERROR FASHION; SEAT-INTERFACE PRESSURE;

AUTOMOBILE SEATS;

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CAR; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERGONOMICS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; RELIABILITY; SEAT; STATISTICAL MODEL;

EID: 2442541490     PISSN: 00036870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apergo.2004.01.007     Document Type: Article

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