Assessing the contribution of variables in feed forward neural network

Applied Soft Computing Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 3690-3696

  Paliwal, Mukta ^a   Kumar, Usha A ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

Author keywords

Multicollinearity; Network weights; Prediction; Regression; Relative importance; Simulation

Indexed keywords

MULTICOLLINEARITY; NETWORK WEIGHTS; PREDICTION; REGRESSION; RELATIVE IMPORTANCE; SIMULATION;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; FORECASTING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 79954593174     PISSN: 15684946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asoc.2011.01.040     Document Type: Article

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