Predicting global Internet growth using augmented diffusion, fuzzy regression and neural network models

International Journal of Information Technology and Decision Making

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 155-171

  Bagchi, Kallol ^a   Mukhopadhyay, Somnath ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion; Forecasting; Fuzzy regression; Global Internet growth; Neural network

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746242233     PISSN: 02196220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0219622006001861     Document Type: Article

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