Federal funds rate prediction: A comparison between the robust RBF neural network and economic models

Mathematics

• RBF Neural Network 100%
• Neural Network Model 61%
• M-estimator 58%
• Forecasting 42%
• Prediction 39%
• Financial Time Series 33%
• Neural Networks 23%
• RBF Network 22%
• Time Series Forecasting 19%
• Financial Data 16%
• Pruning 15%
• Time Series Data 14%
• Lowest 12%
• Economics 10%
• Univariate 10%
• Roots 9%
• Model 8%
• Imply 7%
• Performance 7%

Social Sciences

• neural network 58%
• economic model 57%
• time series 52%
• performance 7%
• economics 6%
• literature 6%

Engineering & Materials Science

• Economics 31%
• Neural networks 29%
• Time series 25%
• Radial basis function networks 11%
• Mean square error 9%