Practical Neural Network Recipies in C++

Probabilistic

Neural Networks

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There are some general guidelines that should be followed if we

expect to find values of σ that result in good performance. First, it

almost goes without saying that the individual components of a

multivariate sample vector should be comparably scaled

to

some "unit"

variation. This equalizes the contributions of each variable. It also

eliminates interaction between choice of

σ

and scaling due to measure-

ment, which has no effect on classification ability, but can help the

experimental design by keeping σ in reasonable ranges. For example,

if the measured variables are the height and weight of persons, it

woul ...