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From: saswss@hotellng.unx.sas.com (Warren Sarle)
Subject: Re: Recovering a function's constituents
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In article <episcopo.24.2F67732C@icarus.som.clarkson.edu>, episcopo@icarus.som.clarkson.edu (Athanasios Episcopos) writes:
|> Suppose you have a function
|>
|> y = f(x) = (g + h)(x)
|>
|> where g and h are nonlinear functions. You have data on x and y and you want
|> to recover g and h. Can this be done using self organizing maps or
|> similar techniques? Is this possible at all?

No, it is not possible without some sort of constraints on g and h.
Perhaps some detail of the problem was omitted from the description?


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