A neuro-computational intelligence analysis of the ecological footprint of nations

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 53, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 3516-3531

  Mostafa, Mohamed M ^a   Nataraajan, Rajan ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY INDICES; BIOLOGICAL CAPACITIES; CLASSIFICATION ACCURACIES; COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCES; COMPUTATIONAL METHODOLOGIES; COMPUTATIONAL MODELS; ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINTS; ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY; GENERALIZED REGRESSION NEURAL NETWORKS; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; MULTI-LAYER PERCEPTRON NEURAL NETWORKS; PER CAPITA; PROBABILISTIC NEURAL NETWORKS; STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES;

DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 64749098484     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2009.03.003     Document Type: Article

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