Hello, First of all I am french, so please forgive me, if there are some big language mistakes in my sentences. I think, it is the good mail address to send my question, if not please tell me and forgive me. I am working on a project, and I use the nnet library. Our customers do not want us to install R on their machine, so we just use R for making the training of our neurons network. This part is good and we have the weights for each neurons and each links. The neuron network we used is a very simple one : 4 inputs for *one linear output* unit with just one hidden layer (with 5 neurons) between the inputs and the ouputs. So in R it is translated by the following network : 4-5-1. We have also a decay of 0.3, but I do not think that fact interfers in our computation. And our problem is to recompute the output with those weights. When we program it or making the computation by hand, we do not find the same result than R. We check our program, we remake the computation by hand and we find always the same result. So one of our hypothesis is that, we do not use the good transfert function or the good activation function. For example for the neuron 1 of the hidden layer we have the weights as follows : b(which is I suppose the input set to one)->h1=w0 i1->h1=w1 i2->h1=w2 i3->h1=w3 i4->h1=w4 So first we make this computation : sum=w0 + i1*w1 + i2*w2 + i3*w3 + i4*w4 (the transfert function) And for computing h1 we use the classic sigmoid function : h1=1/(1+exp(-sum)). And for calculating the output we have those weights : b->o=wo0 i1->o=wo1 i2->o=wo2 i3->o=wo3 i4->o=wo4 h1->o=wo5 h2->o=wo6 h3->o=wo7 h4->o=wo8 h5->o=wo9 And the ouput is computed as follows : o=wo0+wo1*i1+wo2*i2+wo3*i3+wo4*i4+wo5*h1+wo6*h2+wo7*h3+wo8*h4+wo9*h5. So I would like to know, where is our error. Is it the sigmoid function that we used ? The transfert function ? Please answer me, I really need to know it. Thanks in advance. Pierre-Henri BUSSIERE -- Pierre-Henri BUSSIERE Ingénieur Informatique ------------------------------------ NUMTECH 6, allée Alan Turing Parc Technologique de la Pardieu BP 30242 63175 AUBIERE Cedex FRANCE ------------------------------------ Tél. 04.73.28.75.95 Fax. 04.73.28.75.99 [[alternative HTML version deleted]]