Revisiting tests for neglected nonlinearity using artificial neural networks

Neural Computation

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1133-1186

  Cho, Jin Seo ^a   Ishida, Isao ^b   White, Halbert ^c  

^a Yonsei University   (South Korea)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL PHENOMENA; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STANDARD; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 79958266867     PISSN: 08997667     EISSN: 1530888X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/NECO_a_00117     Document Type: Article

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