Download or read book A Statistical Approach to Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition written by Robert A. Dunne and published by Wiley-Interscience. This book was released on 2007-07-16 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a statistical treatment of the Multilayer Perceptron (MLP), which is the most widely used of the neural network models, in a language that is familiar to practicing statisticians. Questions arise when statisticians are first confronted with such a model, and this book's aim is to provide thorough answers.