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From: saswss@hotellng.unx.sas.com (Warren Sarle)
Subject: Re: Can ANN Quantify ?
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In article <4ojrbq$7af@hpg30a.csc.cuhk.edu.hk>, tonymak@sco1.med.cuhk.edu.hk (Dr Tony Mak) writes:
|> I am a beginner trying to use ANN to do some biomedical researches.  There 
|> are several experienced colleagues guiding me thro'.  In one project, I 
|> want to predict the _direction_ and _magnitude_ of change of a variable 
|> after certain intervention.  They told me that ANN is not good at 
|> predicting the _magnitude_ of change, they suggest using conventional 
|> statistics for that.  Is this true ?

No, that's absurd. See "How are NNs related to statistical methods?"
in ftp://ftp.sas.com/pub/neural/FAQ.html

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