| Article ID: | iaor19982397 |
| Country: | Belgium |
| Volume: | 36 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| Start Page Number: | 217 |
| End Page Number: | 225 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 1996 |
| Journal: | Belgian Journal of Operations Research, Statistics and Computer Science |
| Authors: | Couvreur C., Couvreur P. |
| Keywords: | artificial intelligence, statistics: general |
A naive comparison of artificial neural networks (NNs) and statistical methods is offered. The philosophical differences and the practical and mathematical similarities between the two approaches are highlighted. The interconnections between the two fields are illustrated on a notional neural network. A pattern recognition example shows how both fields, NN and statistics, can benefit from each other.