How to determine the unique contributions of input-variables to the nonlinear regression function of a multilayer perceptron

Andreas Fischer

Ecological Modelling, 2015, vol. 309-310, 60-63

Abstract: There are different methods for quantifying the relative contribution of input-variables to the nonlinear regression function provided by a Multilayer Perceptron. Unfortunately most of the systematic method comparisons available to date suffer from a set of characteristic shortcomings. This paper elaborates on these methodological shortcomings and presents a simulation study that demonstrates how to avoid them in future method comparisons. Results of the simulation study indicate that Garson's weight method is preferable to the connection weight method proposed by Olden et al., (2004) for each of the samples simulated.

Keywords: Relative importance; Nonlinear regression; Method comparison; Garson's method; Connection weight method (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2015.04.015

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