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From: saswss@hotellng.unx.sas.com (Warren Sarle)
Subject: Re: NN Vs Stats......
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In article <3gb54t$3sd@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>, chess@uibrl.brl.uiuc.edu (Christopher P. Hess) writes:
|> |> Now let's move on.
|>
|> Amen, Philip.
|> It seems futile to argue; it seems that how you feel depends upon where
|> you draw the lines between statistics and networks.

How many times do I have to say this?

   *** THERE IS NO LINE BETWEEN STATISTICS AND NEURAL NETWORKS ***

Many neural net architectures are identical to well-known statistical
models. You cannot draw a line between two fields that overlap so much.

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