A genetic algorithm approach to find the best regression/econometric model among the candidates

Applied Mathematics and Computation

Volumn 183, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 337-349

  Hasheminia, Hamed ^a   Akhavan Niaki, Seyed Taghi ^a  

^a SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Genetic algorithm; Operations research; Regression econometric models; Search techniques; Transformation

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS; OPERATIONS RESEARCH; PROBLEM SOLVING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ECONOMETRIC MODELS; SEARCH TECHNIQUES;

GENETIC ALGORITHMS;

EID: 33845466217     PISSN: 00963003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amc.2006.05.072     Document Type: Article

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