Neural network model for oil palm yield modeling

Journal of Applied Sciences

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 391-399

  Khamis, Azme ^a   Ismail, Zuhaimy ^b   Haron, Khalid ^c   Mohammed, Ahmad Tarmizi ^c  

^a UNIVERSITI TUN HUSSEIN ONN MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^c MALAYSIAN PALM OIL BOARD   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Activation function; Modeling; Neural network model; Oil palm yield

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION FUNCTIONS; CALCIUM AND MAGNESIUMS; HIDDEN LAYERS; INPUT VARIABLES; LEARNING RATES; NEURAL NETWORK MODEL; OIL PALM; YIELD MODELING;

LEARNING ALGORITHMS; MODELS; NETWORK PERFORMANCE; NEURAL NETWORKS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

PALM OIL;

EID: 33645012905     PISSN: 18125654     EISSN: 18125662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3923/jas.2006.391.399     Document Type: Article

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