Feedforward Neural Network Methodology

Springer, New York, 1999

by

Terrence L. Fine

Reviews, Errata and Comments Supplied by Readers and the Author


Reviews

Emmanuel J. Candes, Statistics, Stanford University, in Jour. American Statistical Association, June 2000, p. 682.


Errata and Comments


Date: 7/31/99

Contributor: Fine

Due to a Latex2e error in the manuscript, pages 142 and 143 are shortened, although no material is omitted.


Date: 11/10/99

Contributor: Fine

Eq. 5.6.1 on p.173 for the quasi-Newton BFGS update of the approximate inverse Hessian is perhaps clearer if we re-index by replacing the left-hand side M_{k+1} by M_k, the right-hand side M_k by M_{k-1}, and q_k =g_k -g_{k-1}, p_k =w_k -w_{k-1}.


Date: 11/17/99

See the pdf document A note on architecture selection.


Date: 2/14/00

Contributor: Peter Bartlett

Definition 4.3.2 on p.92 should be corrected by replacing

\exists f \in G by \exists f \in F

Date: 5/27/00

Contributor: Peter Bartlett

p158, (wk - w^*) in the displayed equation at the bottom should right multiply the matrix


Last revised: 6/16/00