Data Mining Using Neural Networks: A Guide for Statisticians (Chapman & Hall/CRC Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Series)

A concise, easy-to-understand guide to using neural networks in data mining for mathematics, engineering, psychology, and computer science applications, this book compares how neural network models and statistical models are used to tackle data analysis problems. It focuses on the top of the hierarchy of the computational process and shows how neural networks can perform traditional statistical methods of analysis. The book includes some classical and Bayesian statistical inference results and employs R to illustrate the techniques.