VC-dimension and structural risk minimization for the analysis of nonlinear ecological models

Applied Mathematics and Computation

Volumn 176, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 166-176

  Corani, Giorgio ^a   Gatto, Marino ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Demographic time series; Density dependence; Model selection; Structural risk minimization; VC dimension estimation

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POPULATION STATISTICS; STATISTICAL METHODS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

DEMOGRAPHIC TIME SERIES; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; MODEL SELECTION; STRUCTURAL RISK MINIMIZATION (SRM); VC-DIMENSION ESTIMATION;

RISK MANAGEMENT;

EID: 33646155324     PISSN: 00963003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amc.2005.09.050     Document Type: Article

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