Economic valuation of capital projects using neural network metamodels

Engineering Economist

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-30

  Chaveesuk, Ravipim ^a   Smith, Alice E ^b  

^a KASETSART UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKPROPAGATION NETWORK; CAPITAL PROJECTS; CASCADE CORRELATION NETWORK; COMPLEX RELATIONSHIPS; ECONOMIC VALUATION; MULTI-LAYERED PERCEPTRON; PREDICTION ACCURACY; STATISTICAL APPROACH;

COMPLEX NETWORKS; DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 31444444276     PISSN: 0013791X     EISSN: 15472701     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00137910308965049     Document Type: Article

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