[R] find the important inputs to the neural network model in nnet package

2009-03-10 Thread abbas tavassoli

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.



  
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Re: [R] find the important inputs to the neural network model in nnet package

2009-03-10 Thread Mike Lawrence
One thought is to train the net and obtain a performance measure on a
testing corpus. Next, for each input, run the testing corpus again,
but zero all values for that input and obtain a measure of
performance. Zeroing an important node will hurt performance more than
zeroing an unimportant node.

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 9:41 AM, abbas tavassoli tavassoli...@yahoo.com wrote:

 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.




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