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Data driven fitting sample selection for time series forecasting with neural networks

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Data driven fitting sample selection for time series forecasting with neural networks. / Kourentzes, Nikolaos.
The 2012 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN). IEEE, 2012.

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Kourentzes N. Data driven fitting sample selection for time series forecasting with neural networks. In The 2012 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN). IEEE. 2012 doi: 10.1109/IJCNN.2012.6252528

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Kourentzes, Nikolaos. / Data driven fitting sample selection for time series forecasting with neural networks. The 2012 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN). IEEE, 2012.

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