Predicting the type of pregnancy using artificial neural networks and multinomial logistic regression: A comparison study

Neural Computing and Applications

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 198-202

  Sadat Hashemi, Seyed Mehdi ^a   Kazemnejad, Anoshirvan ^a   Lucas, Caro ^b   Badie, Kambiz ^c  

^a TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^c IRAN TELECOMMUNICATION RESEARCH CENTER   (Iran)

Author keywords

Multinomial logistic regression; Neural networks; Prediction; Type of pregnancy

Indexed keywords

EID: 28844435445     PISSN: 09410643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00521-004-0454-8     Document Type: Article

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