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General FAQ:
Q1. What is
NeuroSolutions?
Q2. What is a neural network?
Q3. What do you use a neural
network for?
Q4. Why are neural networks so
powerful?
Q5. What is the NeuralWizard?
Q6. What is NeuroSolutions for
Excel™?
Q. What
is NeuroSolutions?
A. NeuroSolutions is an
object-oriented neural network simulation environment for
MS Windows.
Q. What
is a neural network?
A. A neural network is an adaptable
system that can learn relationships through repeated
presentation of data, and is capable of generalizing to
new, previously unseen data. Some networks are
supervised, in that a human must determine what the
network should learn from the data. Other networks are
unsupervised, in that the way they organize information
is hard-coded into their architecture. For even more
information click here.
Q. What
do you use a neural network for?
A. Neural networks are used for
both regression and classification. In regression, the
outputs represent some desired, continuously valued
transformation of the input patterns. In classification,
the objective is to assign the input patterns to one of
several categories or classes, usually represented by
outputs restricted to lie in the range from 0 to 1, so
that they represent the probability of class membership.
Q. Why
are neural networks so powerful?
A. For regression, it can be shown
that neural networks can learn any desired input-output
mapping if they have sufficient numbers of processing
elements in the hidden layer(s). For classification,
neural networks can learn the Bayesian posterior
probability of correct classification.
Q. What
is the NeuralWizard?
A. The NeuralWizard is an external
program that aids the user in neural network design and
setup. It automatically constructs any of the nine most
popular neural architectures.
Q. What
is NeuroSolutions for Excel™?
A. NeuroSolutions
for Excel™ is an Excel™ add-in that allows the user to construct, train,
and test neural networks entirely from Excel™ . The
user simply selects columns of data as input or target,
and rows of data as training, testing, or
cross-validation. NeuroSolutions for Excel™ then sends messages to
NeuroSolutions in order to train or test a network.
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