
Preface
The primary purpose of this book is to serve as a cookbook for neural
network solutions to practical problems. It should enable people with
moderate programming experience to select a neural network model
that is appropriate to solving a particular problem and to produce a
working program that implements that network. It will also provide
guidance along the entire problem-solving path. This includes
designing the training set, preprocessing variables, training and
validating the network, and evaluating its performance. A detailed
discussion of computation of decision confidences is also provided.
One of the thorniest issues in neura ...