Prediction of first lactation 305-day milk yield in Karan Fries dairy cattle using ANN modeling

Applied Soft Computing Journal

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1112-1120

  Sharma, Adesh K ^a   Sharma, R K ^a   Kasana, H S ^a  

^a THAPAR UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Artificial neural networks; Back propagation; Dairy; Generalization; Karan Fries cows; Milk yield prediction; Regularization; Weight decay

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; BACKPROPAGATION; DATA REDUCTION; FUNCTION EVALUATION; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

DAIRY; GENERALIZATION; KARAN FRIES COWS; MILK YIELD PREDICTION; REGULARIZATION; WEIGHT DECAY;

DAIRY PRODUCTS;

EID: 34047269620     PISSN: 15684946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asoc.2006.07.002     Document Type: Article

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