Hello, I want to use nnet package in R, to train and simulate a NN and get the value of MSE. I am reading in a file which has 19 input variables and one output variable and has a total of 2000 observations. The first column in the file is a column just for giving the serial numbers of the observations. I have already read in the file and also extracted the different values into the matrices to use. Please refer to the code below. I want to use 'xtrain' and 'ytrain' to train the data (the 60% of the observations) and I want to simulate the NN with 'xtest' and then compare the predicted Y values from the NN with the 'ytest' to get a value of MSE. ***************************************************************************** data<-read.table(file="C:/data.dat",sep=",") headings<- c("Class","x1","x2","x3","x4","x5","x6","x7","x8","x9","x10","x11","x12","x13","x14","x15","x16","x17","x18","x19","y") colnames (data ) <? headings xtrain<-data[1:1200,2:20] ytrain<-data[1:1200,21] xtest<-data[1201:2000,2:20] ytest<-data[1201:2000,21] xtrainytrain<-data[1:1200,1:20] sample.int(1200, size=1200, replace = FALSE, prob = NULL) ir.nn3<-nnet(xtrain[samp,], xtrainytrain[samp,], size =10, rang 0.1,decay=5e-4,maxit=1000) ******************************************************************* I am not sure if the sample.int function I used is correct. On running the above code I get a following results in R : %# weights: 420 %initial value 20006516456619.242187 %final value 20006423707287.324219 %converged Can someone please guide me, what are these values? Are they the MSE values ? What should be the correct way of passing 'xtrain' and 'ytrain' to the nnet function ? What can be the function to simulate the trained NN to get the predicted Y values from the NN. Is there a command to get the MSE value ? Please guide me. -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Help-for-using-nnet-in-R-for-NN-training-and-testing-tp2326386p2326386.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.