Using feedforward networks to distinguish multivariate populations
Maxwell B. Stinchcombe, Hannah J. White · 2003
It is shown how feedforward neural networks can be used to construct convenient and informative tests for nonspecific differences between populations with multivariate attributes. The key to the power of these tests is of independent interest: under mild conditions, feedforward neural networks have the universal approximation property when parameterized by weights in arbitrarily small neighborhoods.>