Forecasting S&P 500 index using artificial neural networks and design of experiments

Journal of Industrial Engineering International

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Niaki, Seyed Taghi Akhavan ^a   Hoseinzade, Saeid ^a  

^a SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Analysis of variance; Artificial neural networks; Design of experiments; Financial time series; Logit model; S P 500 index

Indexed keywords

EID: 84908483831     PISSN: 17355702     EISSN: 2251712X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2251-712X-9-1     Document Type: Article

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