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Hi, I am using nnet to learn transfer functions. For each transfer function I can estimate the best possible Mean Squared Error (MSE). So, rather than trying to grind the MSE to 0, I would like to use abstol to stop training once the best MSE is reached. Can anyone confirm that the abstol parameter in the nnet function is the MSE, or is it the Sum-of-Squares (SSE)? Best regards, Sam.

Hello there, I'm back again with another question about the neural network package. I'm having trouble getting the network to run for the maximum number of iterations. It always stops early, usually after 100 iterations claiming to have converged at an answer. Now, for my purposes I want it to run for the entire number of epochs, and I'm been looking at modifying the abstol

Hello All, I would like to know what fit criterion (abstol arg) is in nnet. Is it the threshold for the difference btw the max output and target values? Is the value at each iteration also the difference btw max of output and target values over all output units (case of multiple classes)? How could value displayed at each iteration be related to SSE and abstol be related to threshold SSE,

Hello, I use nnet to do prediction for a continuous variable. after that, I calculate correlation coefficient between predicted value and real observation. I run my code(see following) several time, but I get different correlation coefficient each time. Anyone know why? In addition, How to calculate prediction accuracy for prediction of continuous variable? Aimin thanks, > m.nn.omega

Greetings list, I've just swapped from the "neural" package to the "nnet" package and I've noticed that the training is orders of magnitude faster, and the results are way more accurate. This leads me to wonder, what training algorithm is "nnet" using? Is it a modification on the standard backpropagation? Or a completely different algorithm? I'm

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Dear List, I am trying to solve a problem by the neural network method(library: nnet). The problem is to express Weight in terms of Age , Sex and Height for twenty people. The data frame consists of 20 observations with four variables: Sex, Age, Height and Weight. Sex is treated as a factor, Age and Weight are variables normalized to unity, as usual. I wanted to construct a neural network, and so

Hi, Am working on neural network. Below is the coding and the output > library (nnet) > uplift.nn<-nnet (PVU~ConsumerValue+Duration+PromoVolShare,y,size=3) # weights: 16 initial value 4068.052704 final value 3434.194253 converged > summary (uplift.nn) a 3-3-1 network with 16 weights options were - b->h1 i1->h1 i2->h1 i3->h1 16.64 6.62 149.93

Dear all, Objective: I am trying to learn about neural networks. I want to see if i can train an artificial neural network model to discriminate between spam and nonspam emails. Problem: I created my own model (example 1 below) and got an error of about 7.7%. I created the same model using the Rattle package (example 2 below, based on rattles log script) and got a much better error of about

Dear All, I'm learning to train a neural network with my training data by using nnet package, then evaluate it with a evaluation set. My problem here is that, I need the trained network to be used in future, so, what should I store? and How? Any other options other than nnet package? Any example will be highly appreciated! Best, Baoqiang Cao

Hi, I'm currently trying desperately to get the nnet function for training a neural network (with one hidden layer) to perform a regression task. So I run it like the following: trainednet <- nnet(x=traindata, y=trainresponse, size = 30, linout = TRUE, maxit=1000) (where x is a matrix and y a numerical vector consisting of the target values for one variable) To see whether the network

Dearest all, Objective: I am now learning neural networks. I want to see how well can train an artificial neural network model to discriminate between the two files I am attaching with this message. http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/file/n2240582/3dMaskDump.txt 3dMaskDump.txt http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/file/n2240582/test_vowels.txt test_vowels.txt Question: when I am attempting to run

Hi, I have a binary variable and many explanatory variables and I want to use the package "nnet" to model these data, (instead of logistic regression). I want to find the more effective variables (inputs to the network) in the neural network model. how can I do this? thanks. [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Hi, I was trying to use the nnet library and am not sure of whats going on. I am calling the nnet function as: n <- nnet(x,y,size=3,subset=sets[[1]], maxit=200) Where x is a 272x4 matrix of observations (examples) and y is a 272x1 matrix of target values. However when I look at nnet$residuals they are off by two orders of magnitude (compared to the output from neural network code that I

I'm trying to build forecasting equation from weights of 2-2-1 neural net. Running the nnet function gives me a vecto of 9 weights, but I don't know how to build the equation form these values. Can anyone advice? Or at least tell me where the nnet output is described in details (the manual only gives a brief description). Thanks.

Greetings, I am having trouble calculating artificial neural network misclassification errors using errorest() from the ipred package. I have had no problems estimating the values with randomForest() or svm(), but can't seem to get it to work with nnet(). I believe this is due to the output of the predict.nnet() function within cv.factor(). Below is a quick example of the problem I'm

Hi R, I am using nnet function of nnet package to fit neural networks. Now I want to get a unique solution every time I run the function for the same data. If I give rang=0, it solves my problem but I am not sure whether I am doing the right thing. Any comments are welcome. Thank you, Regards Utkarsh Singhal | Amba Research Ph +91 80 3980 8017 | Mob +91 99 0295 8815 Bangalore * Colombo

Hi, I am trying to determine the number of units in the hidden layer and the decay rate using the CVnn2 script found in MASS directory (reference: pg 348,MASS-4). The model that I am using is in the form of Y ~ X1 + X2 + X3... + X11 and the underlying data is time-series in nature. I found the MASS and nnet package extremely useful (many thanks to the contributors). However I am getting

Hi everyone, According to R reference manual, the nnet function uses the BFGS method of optim to optimize the neural network parameters. I would like, when calling the function nnet to tell the optim function not to produce the tracing information on the progress of the optimization, or at least to reduce the frequency of the reports. I tried the following: a) nnet default > x<-rnorm(20)

Hi, I'm doing a presentation on Neural Networks and Tree-Based Models in two weeks, at the moment I'm looking for a data set to use in the presentation. What I would like to use is a good old data, like the Iris data, that is already known by every statisticians. MASS4 uses the cpus data in Chapter 8.10 and the Cushing's syndrome in Chapter 12.4. These two data sets plus the