COMPARING THE PREDICTIVE PERFORMANCE OF A NEURAL-NETWORK MODEL WITH SOME TRADITIONAL MARKET RESPONSE MODELS

被引:62
作者
DASGUPTA, CG
DISPENSA, GS
GHOSE, S
机构
[1] ELRICK & LAVIDGE INC,SPECIALIZED ANALYT SERV,WESTCHESTER,IL 60154
[2] UNIV WISCONSIN,SCH BUSINESS ADM,MILWAUKEE,WI 53211
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10.1016/0169-2070(94)90004-3
中图分类号
F [经济];
学科分类号
02 ;
摘要
The study compares the performance of two statistical market response models (a logistic regression model and a discriminant analysis model) to that of a back propagation neural network model. The comparative performances of these models are evaluated with respect to their ability to identify consumer segments based upon their willingness to take financial risks and to purchase a non-traditional investment product. The empirical analysis is conducted using two different real-world individual level cross-sectional data sets related to the marketing of financial services. If we rank order the performance of these models, we find that the neural network model performs better than the other two models. However, the level of performance is not significantly higher than those of the other models. This is in contradiction to the findings in the financial industry applications in the literature, where neural network models have, in general, significantly outperformed traditional statistical response models. We believe that our study is one of the first applications of neural network models using individual level cross-sectional survey data for predicting market response and that our findings have opened the doors to further research about the applicability of neural network modelling using individual level cross-sectional data, as opposed to using aggregate company level data.
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页码:235 / 244
页数:10
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