Abbreviations and Notations
- BMU
- Best Matching Unit
- EBIT
- Earnings Before Interests and Taxes
- GIGO
- Garbage In Garbage Out
- GUI
- Graphical User Interface
- HSOM
- Hierarchical Solf-Organizing Map
- KDD
- Knowledge Discovery in Databases
- LVQ
- Learning Vector Quantizer
- MLP
- Multi-Layered Perceptron
- PDF
- Probability Density Function
- RKDE
- Reduced Kernel Density Estimation
- ROCE
- Return On Capital Employed
- SOM
- Self-Organizing Map
- VQ
- Vector Quantization
- VRML
- Virtual Reality Modeling Language
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- a vector in the input space
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- a sample vector i from the input data set
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- reference vector of neuron i
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- the best-matching reference vector of an input vector
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- location of neuron i on the map grid
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- neighborhood kernel around unit c
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- the j-neighborhood around unit i
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- the Voronoi region around unit i
Juha Vesanto
Tue May 27 12:40:37 EET DST 1997