Statistical methods and artificial neural networks

Abstract

Artificial Neural Networks and statistical methods are applied on real data sets for forecasting, classification, and clustering problems. Hybrid models for two components are examined on different data sets; tourist arrival forecasting to Turkey, macro-economic problem on rescheduling of the countries' international debts, and grouping twenty-five European Union member and four candidate countries according to macro-economic indicators. Copyright © 2006 JMASM, Inc.